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Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Special Issue

Physical drivers in the evolution of marine tetrapods

Edited byNicholas D. Pyensona,b, Neil P. Kelleya,c, James F. Parhamd

aDepartment of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Washington DC 20013, USAbDepartments of Mammalogy and Paleontology, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

cDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USAdJohn D. Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center, Department of Geological Sciences, California State University, Fullerton,

CA 92834, USA

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Marine tetrapod macroevolution: Physical and biological drivers on 250 Ma of invasions and evolution in ocean ecosystemsN.D. Pyenson, N.P. Kelley and J.F. Parham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Selective extinction of Triassic marine reptiles during long-term sea-level changes illuminated by seawater strontium isotopesN.P. Kelley, R. Motani, D.-y. Jiang, O. Rieppel and L. Schmitz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Physical drivers of mosasaur evolutionM.J. Polcyn, L.L. Jacobs, R. Araújo, A.S. Schulp and O. Mateus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ancient marine isoscapes and isotopic evidence of bulk-feeding by Oligocene cetaceansM.T. Clementz, R.E. Fordyce, S.L. Peek and D.L. Fox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ghost of seagrasses past: Using sirenians as a proxy for historical distribution of seagrassesJ. Vélez-Juarbe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Evolutionary drivers for flightless, wing-propelled divers in the Northern and Southern HemispheresT. Ando and R.E. Fordyce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

High frequency echolocation, ear morphology, and themarine–freshwater transition: A comparative study of extant and extinct toothedwhalesC.S. Gutstein, C.P. Figueroa-Bravo, N.D. Pyenson, R.E. Yury-Yañez, M.A. Cozzuol and M. Canals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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doi:10.1016/S0031-0182(14)00141-2