Evolution of Fish-Shaped Reptiles (reptilia: Ichthyopterygia) in Their Physical Environments and Constraints

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The evolution of Metriorhynchoidea (mesoeucrocodylia, thalattosuchia): an integrated approach using geometric morphometrics, analysis of disparity, and biomechanics (2010, background): “…s.s. included enlarged orbits (orbital anteroposterior length > 17% of basicranial length), suggesting that vision was their primary sense of perception (see Motani, Rothschild & Wahl, 1999 and Motani, 2005 for a discussion on orbit and eye size in vertebrates, and its importance to vision).”
Uncovering the diversification history of marine tetrapods: ecology influences the effect of geological sampling biases (2011, background): “Thus, the evolution of highly pelagic forms among ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurians, which occurred by the Late Triassic (Storrs 1994; Motani 2005), released these animals from dependence on shallow marine habitats.”
Cretaceous tetrapod fossil record sampling and faunal turnover: Implications for biogeography and the rise of modern clades (2013, unknown): “, 2009, 2012a, 2012b), and ichthyosaurs (e.g. Maish and Matzke, 2000; Sander, 2000; Lingham-Soliar, 2003; Motani, 2005; Fischer et al., 2012).”