Michael J. Polcyn

A Fossil Snake with Limbs

Eitan Tchernov, Olivier Rieppel, Hussam Zaher et al. · Science · 2000 · 258 citations

Living Fossil, Anatomy, Comparative Anatomy +16

Skin pigmentation provides evidence of convergent melanism in extinct marine reptiles

Johan Lindgren, Peter Sjövall, Ryan M. Carney et al. · Nature · 2014 · 155 citations

Biology, Extinct Marine Reptiles, Morphological Evidence +7

Physical drivers of mosasaur evolution

Michael J. Polcyn, Louis L. Jacobs, Ricardo Araújo et al. · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · 2013 · 132 citations

Biology, Physical Drivers, Morphological Evidence +4

<i>Dallasaurus turneri</i>, a new primitive mosasauroid from the Middle Turonian of Texas and comments on the phylogeny of Mosasauridae (Squamata)

Gorden L. Bell, Michael J. Polcyn · Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en Mijnbouw · 2005 · 130 citations · Full text

Living Fossil, Comparative Anatomy, Synapsida +16

<i>Russellosaurus coheni</i> n. gen., n. sp., a 92 million-year-old mosasaur from Texas (USA), and the definition of the parafamily Russellosaurina

Michael J. Polcyn, Gorden L. Bell · Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en Mijnbouw · 2005 · 101 citations · Full text

Biology, Morphological Evidence, Phylogenetics +12