Korte, C., Hesselbo, S. P., Ullmann, C. V., Dietl, G., Ruhl, M., Schweigert, G. & Thibault, N. 2015. Jurassic climate mode governed by ocean gateway. Nature Communications 6: 10015. Charig, A. J. & Milner, A. C. 1990. The systematic position of Baryonyx walkeri in the light of Gauthier’s reclassification of the theropoda. In Carpenter, K. & Currie, P. J. (eds), Dinosaur Systematics: Approaches and Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, pp. 127-140. Arranged by portfolio, this book brings this dramatic art to a wide, contemporary audience. The art is accompanied by text on the animals and their lives, written by palaeontologist Darren Naish. Palaeoart is dynamic, fluid and colourful, as were the beasts it portrays, which are displayed in this magnificent book.

Martin-Silverstone, E., Sykes, D. & Naish, D. 2018. Does postcranial palaeoneurology provide insight into pterosaur behaviour and lifestyle? New data from the azhdarchoid Vectidraco and the ornithocheirids Coloborhynchus and Anhanguera. Palaeontology 2018, 1-14. doi: 10.1111/pala/12390 In the years since 1997, other baryonychine bits and pieces have been reported from the Wealden. They’re mostly teeth too but they also include an interesting tall-spined dorsal vertebra from the Isle of Wight’s Wessex Formation, a subdivision of the Wealden that includes some of its youngest sediments. European baryonychine remains have also been reported from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain (Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 1997, 2005, Viera & Torres 1995) and Portugal (Buffetaut 2007, Mateus et al. 2011).Storrs, G. W. & Taylor, M. A. 1996. Cranial anatomy of a new plesiosaur genus from the lowermost Lias (Rhaetian/Hettangian) of Street, Somerset, England. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16, 403-420.

Geister, J. 1998. Lebensspuren made by marine reptiles and their prey in the Middle Jurassic (Callovian) of Liesberg, Switzerland. Facies 39, 105-124. So as what it is mainly intended to be - a collection of excellent paleoart, ready for your coffee table or to fascinate your child - this book is five stars, excellent. A consequence of this fact is that our views on these animals – I’m mostly talking here about Jurassic groups – tend to be highly Eurocentric. Today, we know that animals similar to those of Europe occurred around South America, in the Caribbean, on the western coast of North America, and elsewhere too, so the view that these animals originated in Europe or should be considered strongly associated with Europe could well be very wrong. Naish, D. & Martill, D. M. 2007. Dinosaurs of Great Britain and the role of the Geological Society of London in their discovery: basal Dinosauria and Saurischia. Journal of the Geological Society, London 164, 493-510.

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Buffetaut, E. 2007. The spinosaurid dinosaur Baryonyx (Saurischia, Theropoda) in the Early Cretaceous of Portugal. Geological Magazine 144. 1021-1025. Alberti, M., Fürsich, F. T. & Andersen, N. 2019. First steps in reconstructing Early Jurassic sea water temperatures in the Andean Basin of northern Chile based on stable isotope analyses of oyster and brachiopod shells. Journal of Palaeogeography 8: 33. Liu, S., Smith, A. S., Gu, Y., Tan, J., Liu, C. K. &Turk, G. 2015. Computer simulations imply forelimb-dominated underwater flight in plesiosaurs. PLoS Computational Biology 11, e1004 . Naish, D., Hutt, S. & Martill, D. M. 2001. Saurischian dinosaurs 2: Theropods. In Martill, D. M. & Naish, D. (eds) Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight. The Palaeontological Association (London), pp. 242-309. Charig, A. J. & Milner, A. C. 1986. Baryonyx, a remarkable new theropod dinosaur. Nature 324, 359-361.