Ryosuke Motani

Affiliations

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.

Publications (12)

The new ichthyosauriform

PeerJ

Avec: Jian-Dong Huang , Ryosuke Motani , Da-Yong Jiang , Andrea Tintori , Olivier Rieppel , Min Zhou , Xin-Xin Ren , Rong Zhang

Paleomass for R-bracketing body volume of marine vertebrates with 3D models.

PeerJ

Avec: Ryosuke Motani

Evidence Supporting Predation of 4-m Marine Reptile by Triassic Megapredator.

iScience

Avec: Da-Yong Jiang , Ryosuke Motani , Andrea Tintori , Olivier Rieppel , Cheng Ji , Min Zhou , Xue Wang , Hao Lu , Zhi-Guang Li

Repeated evolution of durophagy during ichthyosaur radiation after mass extinction indicated by hidden dentition.

Scientific reports

Avec: Jian-Dong Huang , Ryosuke Motani , Da-Yong Jiang , Xin-Xin Ren , Andrea Tintori , Olivier Rieppel , Min Zhou , Yuan-Chao Hu , Rong Zhang

Downsizing a heavyweight: factors and methods that revise weight estimates of the giant fossil whale

PeerJ

Avec: Ryosuke Motani , Nicholas D Pyenson

Morphological relationships between vertebrate claw unguals and sheaths and the functional morphology of these structures.

Journal of morphology

Avec: Tracy J Thomson , Ryosuke Motani

Flipper bone distribution reveals flexible trailing edge in underwater flying marine tetrapods.

Journal of morphology

Avec: Mark C DeBlois , Ryosuke Motani

Early Triassic marine reptile representing the oldest record of unusually small eyes in reptiles indicating non-visual prey detection.

Scientific reports

Avec: Long Cheng , Ryosuke Motani , Da-Yong Jiang , Chun-Bo Yan , Andrea Tintori , Olivier Rieppel

Functional morphology of vertebrate claws investigated using functionally based categories and multiple morphological metrics.

Journal of morphology

Avec: Tracy J Thomson , Ryosuke Motani

The oldest record of Saurosphargiformes (Diapsida) from South China could fill an ecological gap in the Early Triassic biotic recovery.

PeerJ

Avec: Long Cheng , Benjamin C Moon , Chunbo Yan , Ryosuke Motani , Dayong Jiang , Zhihui An , Zichen Fang

Ecophysiological steps of marine adaptation in extant and extinct non-avian tetrapods.

Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Avec: Ryosuke Motani , Geerat J Vermeij

Skeletal convergence in thunniform sharks, ichthyosaurs, whales, and tunas, and its possible ecological links through the marine ecosystem evolution.

Scientific reports

Avec: Ryosuke Motani , Kenshu Shimada

Réseau de co-auteurs

Da-Yong Jiang 4 collaborations

Andrea Tintori 4 collaborations

Olivier Rieppel 4 collaborations

Min Zhou 3 collaborations

Jian-Dong Huang 2 collaborations

Xin-Xin Ren 2 collaborations

Rong Zhang 2 collaborations

Tracy J Thomson 2 collaborations

Long Cheng 2 collaborations

Cheng Ji 1 collaboration

Xue Wang 1 collaboration

Hao Lu 1 collaboration

Zhi-Guang Li 1 collaboration

Yuan-Chao Hu 1 collaboration

Nicholas D Pyenson 1 collaboration

Mark C DeBlois 1 collaboration

Chun-Bo Yan 1 collaboration

Benjamin C Moon 1 collaboration

Chunbo Yan 1 collaboration

Dayong Jiang 1 collaboration

Zhihui An 1 collaboration

Zichen Fang 1 collaboration

Geerat J Vermeij 1 collaboration

Kenshu Shimada 1 collaboration