CHAPTER 8 – Feeding in Lepidosaurs

By K. Schwenk. 2000

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Fossil lizards from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India (2002, background): “In acrodont iguanians, replacement generally continues in the anterior pleurodont series, presumably important if these teeth are used in seizing prey (e.g., Schwenk, 2000).”
Feeding ecology of North American gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae) (2002, background): “By setting realistic boundaries on measures of performance, knowledge about the natural diet of an animal can also inform studies of functional and evolutionary morphology (Greene, 1986; Lorenz Elwood & Cundall, 1994; Schwenk, 2000).”
Correlations between lizard cranial shape and diet: A quantitative, phylogenetically informed analysis (2005, background): “In contrast to previously published statements (Greene, 1982; King, 1996; Schwenk, 2000), there does appear to be a clear relationship between dietary and phenotypic specialization in lepidosaurs.”
Cranial Kinesis in Dinosaurs: Intracranial Joints, Protractor Muscles, and Their Significance for Cranial Evolution and Function in Diapsids (2008, background): “…suggestive of movement (i.e., protractor muscles, synovial basal and otic joints) or phylogenetic relationships that might have predicted mobility (e.g., among iguanids, Agama is akinetic but Uromastyx is kinetic; Gorniak et al., 1982; Herrel et al., 2000; Schwenk, 2000; Metzger, 2002; Wu, 2003).”