Systematics and morphology of American mosasaurs Dale A. Russell ; with a foreword by Jacques A. Gauthier.
A classic work from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History describing the mosasaurs, a group of large predatory marine lizards of the Mesozoic.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- FOREWORD
- ABSTRACTS (ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, FRENCH)
- INTRODUCTION
- HISTORY OF CLASSIFICATION
- GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF MOSASAUR SKULL
- FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY OF CRANIAL SKELETON
- GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSTCRANIAL SKELETON
- FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY OF POSTCRANIAL SKELETON
- SYSTEMATICS
- STRATIGRAPHIC AND PALEOECOLOCIC CONSIDERATIONS
- EVOLUTIONARY CONSIDERATIONS
- APPENDIX A--MEASUREMENTS
- APPENDIX B--LOCALITIES OF PIERRE MOSASAURS
- LITERATURE CITED
- INDEX
- CHARTS 1-7
- PLATES 1,2.