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Stabilizing selection on the variability of spacing of Lobodon carcinophaga (crabeater seal) postcanine teeth for successful filter-feeding foraging strategies

Pollak, Megan; Pollak, Megan (University of Oregon, 2020)

Pinnipeds, the group that includes true seals, eared seals, and walruses, generally display highly variable tooth spacing. Previous studies have credited this variability to the typical pinniped feeding mechanism, a ...
Stable Isotope Analysis of Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Shark Teeth (Serratolamna serrata; Carcharias holmdelensis) from the Western Interior Seaway

Lisle, Rachel (University of Oregon, 2022)

The Western Interior Seaway was a Late Cretaceous (100.5-66 Mya) inland sea that, at its largest, stretched north to south from the modern-day Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. Research concerning this seaway has revealed ...
Those Queer Amphibious Animals: Digging into the Fossil Record of Otarioid Pinnipeds to Investigate their Early Diversification, Locomotor Evolution, and Conservation Biogeography

Tate-Jones, Kellum (University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)

Seals, sea lions, walruses, and their extinct relatives and ancestors have played a critical role in marine ecosystems for over 25 million years. Known collectively as pinnipeds, these secondarily aquatic animals are unique ...