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Marine Reptiles

• The Oceans of Kansas Web site centers on large Cretaceous marine reptiles, though there is LOTS of other stuff as well.
• Visit the Hauff Museum in Holzmaden, Germany, which has some of the most beautiful fossil marine reptiles in the world (Jurassic age.)

Turtles

• Box turtle
• Sea turtle on shore
• Proganochelys from the Late Triassic of Europe .
• Proganochelys in its environment. Tree of Life page
• Giant sea turtle at NOVA On-Line

Crocodiles

• Sarcosuchus, the Cretaceous "Supercroc" from Africa.
  • Skeletal reconstruction of Supercroc. National Geographic.
  • Paul Sereno and Supercroc. National Geographic.
  • The skulls of Supercroc and a modern crocodile. National Geographic.
  • Supercroc with person for scale. National Geographic.
  • BROWSE Supercroc.com!!!

• BROWSE Crocodile photo gallery from the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Ichthyosaurs

• Sizes of ichthyosaurs. Ryosuke Motani's Web site.
• Ichthyosaur with fin and tail preserved. Ryosuke Motani's Web site.
• An ichthyosaur hand. RC photo, Figure 14.3.
• Evolution of the front fin of ichthyosaurs. Ryosuke Motani's Web site.
• Sclerotic ring round the eyeball of ichthyosaurs. Ryosuke Motani's Web site.
• Relative size of body and eye in different creatures. Ryosuke Motani's Web site.
• Ichthyosaur vertebra. Ryosuke Motani's Web site.
• Ryosuke Motani published a review of ichthyosaur biology in the December 2000 issue of Scientific American, but the silly fools took it away.
• CAT scan of ichthyosaur skull
• Painting of ichthyosaurs.
• Drawing of Shonisaurus. Figure 14.5.
• Eurhinosaurus

Sauropterygians

Placodonts

• Diversity of placodonts at the Oceans of Kansas Web site.
• Skull of Placodus. Figure 14.7.
• Reconstruction of placodont by Dan Varner at the Oceans of Kansas Web site.

Nothosaurs

• Pachypleurosaur from China
• Lariosaurus. Figure 14.8.

Plesiosaurs

• Plesiosaur from the Oceans of Kansas site.
• Plesiosaur in side view Oceans of Kansas site.
• Styxosaurus, skull in side view Oceans of Kansas site.
• Plesiosaur skull Oceans of Kansas site.
• The huge pliosaur Kronosaurus from the Oceans of Kansas site.
• Pliosaur from Kansas. Oceans of Kansas site.
• Rhomaleosaurus. Oceans of Kansas site. Better than Figure 14.9.
• Close-up drawing of gastralia. Oceans of Kansas site.
• Plesiosaur limb. Oceans of Kansas site.
• Plesiosaur limb. Oceans of Kansas site.
• Gastroliths from a plesiosaur

Mosasaurs

• Finding the first mosasaur
• An early drawing of the first known mosasaur.Figure 14.12.
• Skull of Clidastes. Figure 14.11.
• Platecarpus. Figure 14.10.
• The "Ginsu" shark ate mosasaurs (but not fast enough!). Oceans of Kansas site.

The Earliest Angiosperms

• Photo of Archaeanthus from U. Florida.
• Archaefructus, from Science paper.

Amborella, arguably the most primitive living angiosperm, growing in the arboretum at Santa Cruz, California.

• The full plant
• Amborella close up.
• Painting of Amborella. California Academy of Sciences.

Gymnosperms and Early Angiosperms, and their Early Pollinators

• Mesozoic pollination. Figure 14.14.
• Living Gingko tree from Wayne Armstrong's Wayne's Word at Palomar College.
• Leaves of Gingko from Wayne Armstrong's Wayne's Word.
• Gingko herbal remedies from Wayne Armstrong's Wayne's Word.
• Metasequoia cones and needles from Wayne Armstrong's Wayne's Word.
• Fossil Metasequoia from the Oligocene of Oregon from Wayne Armstrong's Wayne's Word.
• Cycad cone from Wayne Armstrong's Wayne's Word.
• Female cycad cones on the trees from Wayne Armstrong's Wayne's Word.
• Female cone with bright red seeds from Wayne Armstrong's Wayne's Word.
• Male cycad cone from Wayne Armstrong's Wayne's Word.
• Welwitschia in the Namib desert; from Wayne Armstrong's Wayne's Word.
• Male cone of Welwitschia; from Wayne Armstrong's Wayne's Word.
• The Wollemi pine of Australia: from the brink of extinction to your flower pot
  • BBC News OnLine.
  • The secret hideout of the Wollemi pine BBC News OnLine.

• Winteraceae
  • Winteraceae: flower drawing.
  • Color photograph from Missouri Botanical Garden, taken in Madagascar.

Magnolias

• are relatives of Winteraceae. Magnolia flower: this image is from Wayne Armstrong's Wayne's Word.

Plants and Seed Dispersal

Seed dispersal by non-biological agents

• Wind dispersal of seed 1.
• Wind dispersal of seeds 2.
• Wind dispersal of seeds 3.
• Coconuts disperse by floating.

Seed dispersal by biological agents

• Seed dispersal by hitch-hiking burrs, 1
• Seed dispersal by hitch-hiking burrs, 2

Angiosperm Ecology and Evolution

• Ants and acacia.

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