A Preliminary Analysis of Archosauromorph Baraminology [PDF]
Archosauromorpha is a large grouping of reptiles including the Archosauria and other related taxa, such as phytosaurs, rhynchosaurs, and tanystropheids. Phylogenetically, Archosauria contains both crocodilians and birds, as well as several extinct groups
Ahten, Alia +4 more
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Tanystropheid archosauromorphs in the Lower Triassic of Gondwana [PDF]
Tanystropheidae is a clade of early archosauromorphs with a reported distribution ranging from the Early to the Late Triassic of Asia, Europe, and North America.
Tiane Macedo De Oliveira +4 more
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Bone histology of Azendohsaurus laaroussii: Implications for the evolution of thermometabolism in Archosauromorpha [PDF]
AbstractThis paper is aimed at constraining the phylogenetic frame of the acquisition of endothermy by Archosauromorpha. We analyzed the bone histology of Azendohsaurus laaroussii. Stylopodial and zeugopodial bones show three tissue types: (1) avascular lamellar zonal bone formed at low growth rates; (2) a scaffold of parallel-fibered bone containing ...
Cubo, Jorge, Jalil, Nour-Eddine
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Tetrapod remains are extremely rare in the early Carnian (Late Triassic) Calcare del Predil Formation on the Italian side of the Julian Alps (Friuli Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region), which yielded the Raibl fossil assemblage including the famous "Raibl ...
FABIO MARCO DALLA VECCHIA
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The palatal dentition of tetrapods and its functional significance [PDF]
The presence of a palatal dentition is generally considered to be the primitive condition in amniotes, with each major lineage showing a tendency toward reduction. This study highlights the variation in palatal tooth arrangements and reveals clear trends
Evans, SE, Matsumoto, R
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The phylogenetic position of the Pterosauria within the Archosauromorpha [PDF]
In recent years the hypothesis that pterosaurs were the major sister-group of dinosaurs and a closely-linked hypothesis that pterosaurs evolved flight from the ground up have gained general acceptance. A cladistic analysis of the Archosauromorpha using characters presented by previous workers results in a single most parsimonious tree with the ...
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Post-natal parental care in a Cretaceous diapsid from northeastern China [PDF]
Post-natal parental care seems to have evolved numerous times in vertebrates. Among extant amniotes, it is present in crocodilians, birds, and mammals. However, evidence of this behavior is extremely rare in the fossil record and is only reported for two
B.C.R. Bertram +44 more
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Morphology and function of the palatal dentition in Choristodera [PDF]
Choristoderes are a group of extinct freshwater reptiles that were distributed throughout Laurasia from the Middle Jurassic to the Miocene. They are inferred to have had a lifestyle similar to that of extant gavialid crocodiles, but they differed from ...
Evans, SE, Matsumoto, R
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Sea surface temperature contributes to marine crocodylomorph evolution [PDF]
During the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, four distinct crocodylomorph lineages colonized the marine environment. They were conspicuously absent from high latitudes, which in the Mesozoic were occupied by warm-blooded ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.
Amiot, Romain +3 more
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Diverse New Microvertebrate Assemblage from the Upper Triassic Cumnock Formation, Sanford Subbasin, North Carolina, USA [PDF]
The Moncure microvertebrate locality in the Cumnock Formation, Sanford sub-basin, North Carolina, dramatically increases the known Late Triassic age vertebrate assemblage from the Deep River Basin.
Andrew B. Heckert +110 more
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