Essays about: "belemniter"

Found 2 essays containing the word belemniter.

1. 1. Testing the Cretaceous Diversity of Ichthyosaurs and Their Extinction Hypotheses Using a Quantitative Approach

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Naz Acikkol; [2015]
   Keywords : diversity; ichthyosaurs; extinction; belemnites; ammonites; prey; predator; rock record; sampling bias; Cretaceous; mångfald; utdöende; fisködlor; belemniter; rovdjur; byte;

   Abstract : As portrayed in Before the Dinosaur: the Historical Significance of the Fossil Marine Reptiles, ichthyosaurs, as other Mesozoic marine amniotes, have been unfairly overshadowed by dinosaurs in both popular culture and the field of vertebrate palaeontology. Yet by the effort of dedicated researchers, work on these fish-like marine reptiles had never died out, and in fact a second wave of interest emerged in the late 20th century. READ MORE

3. 2. Early Campanian mosasaurs (Reptilia; Mosasauridae) from the Kristianstad Basin, southern Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

   Author : Johan Lindgren; [1998]
   Keywords : Mosasauridae; Clidastes; Platecarpus; Hainosaurus; mosasaur; Cretaceous; Campanian; Kristianstad; Skåne; Sweden; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Marine strata of latest early Campanian age from the Kristianstad Basin in Skåne, southern Sweden, have yielded a diverse mosasaur fauna comprising four taxa: Clidastes? sp., Platecarpus cf. somenensis, Hainosaurus? ivoensis and Mosasauridae sp. READ MORE