The relationships of the Euparkeriidae and the rise of Archosauria [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 For the first time, a phylogenetic analysis including all putative euparkeriid taxa is conducted, using a large data matrix analysed with maximum parsimony and Bayesian analysis. Using parsimony, the putative euparkeriid Dorosuchus neoetus from Russia is
Roland B Sookias
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Deep reptilian evolutionary roots of a major avian respiratory adaptation [PDF]
Communications Biology, 2023 A newly discovered osteological correlate for structures associated with ventilatory muscle attachment indicates a deep evolutionary history of respiratory innovation within Archosauria.
Yan-yin Wang +2 more
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Quantitative biomechanical assessment of locomotor capabilities of the stem archosaur Euparkeria capensis [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Birds and crocodylians are the only remaining members of Archosauria (ruling reptiles) and they exhibit major differences in posture and gait, which are polar opposites in terms of locomotor strategies.
Oliver E. Demuth +2 more
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The evolution and role of the hyposphene-hypantrum articulation in Archosauria: phylogeny, size and/or mechanics? [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Living members of Archosauria, the reptile clade containing Crocodylia and Aves, have a wide range of skeletal morphologies, ecologies and body size.
Candice M Stefanic, Sterling J Nesbitt
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Characterization of Two Transposable Elements and an Ultra-Conserved Element Isolated in the Genome of Zootoca vivipara (Squamata, Lacertidae) [PDF]
Life, 2023 Transposable elements (TEs) constitute a considerable fraction of eukaryote genomes representing a major source of genetic variability. We describe two DNA sequences isolated in the lizard Zootoca vivipara, here named Zv516 and Zv817.
Marcello Mezzasalma +7 more
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Pulmonary anatomy in the Nile crocodile and the evolution of unidirectional airflow in Archosauria [PDF]
PeerJ, 2013 The lungs of birds have long been known to move air in only one direction during both inspiration and expiration through most of the tubular gas-exchanging bronchi (parabronchi).
Emma R. Schachner +2 more
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Osteology of the Late Triassic aetosaur Scutarx deltatylus (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Aetosaurians are some of the most common fossils collected from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation of Arizona, especially at the Petrified Forest National Park (PEFO). Aetosaurians collected from lower levels of the park include Desmatosuchus spurensis,
William G. Parker
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Crocodiles (Archosauria: Crocodylia) of the neotropical region
Biota Colombiana, 2000 -
Miguel A. Rodríguez M.
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Ontogeny of the Middle-Ear Air-Sinus System in Alligator mississippiensis (Archosauria: Crocodylia). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Modern crocodylians, including Alligator mississippiensis, have a greatly elaborated system of pneumatic sinuses invading the cranium. These sinuses invade nearly all the bones of the chondrocranium and several bony elements of the splanchnocranium, but ...
David L Dufeau, Lawrence M Witmer
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Biomechanical analysis and new trophic hypothesis for Riojasuchus tenuisceps, a bizarre-snouted Late Triassic pseudosuchian from Argentina [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 Ornithosuchids are a Late Triassic pseudosuchian archosaur group, consisting of four species (three from South America, and one from Scotland). All of them have triangular skulls with a protruding premaxilla, large nostrils, an extensive diastema in ...
JEREMÍAS R.A. TABORDA +2 more
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