Ocean Life in the Time of Dinosaurs

Cover
Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1. Setting the Scene
	I. Modern Marine Reptiles
	II. The Waltz of the Continents during the Mesozoic
	III. From One Crisis to the Next
	IV. Life in All Its States
Chapter 2. All Aquatic, All Different
	I. Reptiles? What Are Those?
	II. Reptiles Become Very Small, Biding Their Time
	III. Long Live the Crisis!
	IV. Mesozoic Marine Reptiles Were Not Dinosaurs
	V. Reptiles with Large Eyes: The Ichthyosaurs
	VI. The Sauropterygians: Loch Ness Monster & Co.
	VII. The Hupehsuchians: An Exclusive Group
	VIII. The Thalattosaurs: Enigmatic Reptiles
	IX. The Crocodylomorphs: Variations on a Crocodile
	X .The Turtles: A Unique Anatomy among the Vertebrates
	XI. The Squamates: Sea Serpents and Leviathans
Chapter 3. The Paleozoic Era
	I. The Late Paleozoic (300–252 Ma): A “Swimming Practice Center” for Reptiles
	II. Mesosaurus: Alfred Wegener and Continental Drift
Chapter 4. The Triassic Period
	I. A Period of Great Changes
	II. Monte San Giorgio
	III. Guanling
	IV. An Underrated Crisis
Chapter 5. The Jurassic Period
	I. A New World
	II. Holzmaden
	III. The Oxford Clay
Chapter 6. The Cretaceous Period
	I. Champagne
	II. The Eromanga Basin
	III. Morocco’s Phosphates
	IV. The Cretaceous/Paleogene Extinction Event
Chapter 7. The Cenozoic Era
	I. What’s Left of the Cretaceous?
	II. Of Dinosaurs: To Fly or to Swim? Why Choose?
	III. Marine Mammals
Glossary
Bibliography
Resources
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits