ID - 131768837 TI - Ancient marine reptiles AU - Callaway, Jack M AU - Nicholls, Elizabeth L PY - 1997 SN - 9780121552107 0121552101 9780080527215 0080527213 1281054127 9781281054128 9786611054120 PB - San Diego Academic Press DB - UniCat KW - Marine reptiles, Fossil. KW - Marine animals, Fossil. KW - Marine reptiles, Fossil UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131768837 AB - Vertebrate evolution has led to the convergent appearance of many groups of originally terrestrial animals that now live in the sea. Among these groups are familiar mammals like whales, dolphins, and seals. There are also reptilian lineages (like plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, thalattosaurs, and others) that have become sea creatures. Most of these marine reptiles, often wrongly called ""dinosaurs"", are extinct. This edited book is devoted to these extinct groups of marine reptiles. These reptilian analogs represent useful models of the myriad adaptations that permit tetrapods to live ER -