Validating osteological correlates for the hepatic piston in the American alligator (<i>Alligator mississippiensis</i>). [PDF]
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The absence of an invasive air sac system in the earliest dinosaurs suggests multiple origins of vertebral pneumaticity. [PDF]
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The provenance of alveolar and parabronchial lungs: insights from paleoecology and the discovery of cardiogenic, unidirectional airflow in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) [PDF]
, 2010 Journal ArticleBirds and mammals evolved greater aerobic abilities than their common ancestor had. This required expansion of the cardiopulmonary system's capacity for gas exchange, but while directional selection for his expanded capacity resulted in ...
Farmer, Colleen G.
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Nueva especie de Ornithocheiroidea (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) del Barremiense (Cretácico Inferior) de la Península Ibérica [PDF]
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Estimating Ancestral States of Complex Characters: A Case Study on the Evolution of Feathers. [PDF]
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A tiny ornithodiran archosaur from the Triassic of Madagascar and the role of miniaturization in dinosaur and pterosaur ancestry. [PDF]
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Macroevolutionary relationship between interspecific and intraspecific morphological variation [PDF]
On a macroevolutionary scale, a gradual decrease in interspecific and intraspecific variability can be observed in a number of evolutionary lineages during their existence.
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A new large 'silesaur' specimen from the ?Late Triassic of Zambia; taxonomic, ecological and evolutionary implications. [PDF]
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Testing pterosaur ingroup relationships through broader sampling of avemetatarsalian taxa and characters and a range of phylogenetic analysis techniques. [PDF]
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Scleromochlus taylori and the origin of dinosaurs and pterosaurs
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