The Origin of the Modern Bird Skull, with a Focus on the Evolution and Embryonic Development of Musculoskeletal Structures in the Temporal and Otic Regions [PDF]
, 2022 Compared with their Mesozoic theropod ancestors, extant birds (Aves) exhibit extensively modified skulls and associated soft tissue, with massively enlarged brains and reduced temporal musculature, an inner ear with dorsally elongated semicircular canals,
Hanson, Michael
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Extended embryo retention and viviparity in the first amniotes. [PDF]
Nat Ecol Evol, 2023 Jiang B +7 more
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Reptile Evolution and Genetics: An Overview. [PDF]
Animals (Basel), 2023 Olmo E.
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Niche partitioning shaped herbivore macroevolution through the early Mesozoic. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2021 Singh SA +5 more
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Were pterosaur ancestors bipedal or quadrupedal?: Morphometric, functional, and phylogenetic considerations [PDF]
, 2008 Padian, Kevin
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Estudio y comparación del esqueleto axial de un saurópodo (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) procedente de la Formación Villar del Arzobispo (Titónico-Berriasiense) de Galve, Teruel [PDF]
, 2005 The great vertebrate fossil record, Tithonian-Barremian in age, found in the outcrops of Galve (Teruel, Spain), has been recently increased with the discovery of sauropod remains in Cuesta Lonsal locality.
Barco, J. L.
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Special Issue: 100 years of scientific excavations at UNESCO World Heritage Site Monte San Giorgio and global research on Triassic marine Lagerstätten [PDF]
Only a few Swiss fossil localities are known globally and of which, the UNESCO World Heritage Site Monte San Giorgio, which extends from Switzerland into Italy, is the most important one. Following the discovery of the occurrence of articulated skeletons
Albisetti, Daniele +6 more
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L’icnoassociazione a tetrapodi del Bletterbach (Trentino Alto-Adige) e le sue relazioni con gli ecosistemi terrestri di fine Permiano [PDF]
, 2017 In questo articolo viene proposta un’analisi aggiornata dell’associazione a impronte di tetrapodi rinvenuta a partire dagli anni ’70 del secolo scorso presso la Gola del Bletterbach (Alpi meridionali, Italia nord-orientale) e una sua ...
Bernardi, Massimo +3 more
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Heads or tails first? Evolution of fetal orientation in ichthyosaurs, with a scrutiny of the prevailing hypothesis. [PDF]
BMC Ecol Evol, 2023 Miedema F +6 more
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