Norms of evidence in the classification of living fossils
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Some species have held fast for millions of years as constants in a changing world. Often called “living fossils,” these species capture scientific and public interest by showing us the vestiges of an earlier world.
Beckett Sterner
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Trypanosoma sp. em jacaré, Caiman crocodilus yacare (Daudín, 1823) (Crocodilia: Alligatoridae)
Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 1990 Infecção natural por Trypanosoma sp. é descrita em jacaré, Caiman crododilus yacare (Crocodilia: Alligatoridae) em Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. O tripanosoma distingue-se de Trypanosoma grayi, do crocodilo Africano, Crocodilus niloticus (Crocodilia ...
Vânia Lúcia Brandão Nunes +1 more
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Hearing in the Crocodilia [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1971 Measurements of auditory sensitivity in terms of the cochlear potentials were made in young specimens of three species of crocodilians, Caiman crocodilus and Alligator mississipiensis of the subfamily Alligatorinae and Crocodylus ...
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Dwarfism and feeding behaviours in Oligo–Miocene crocodiles from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2016 Instances of dwarfism in the fossil record are of interest to palaeontologists because they often provide insight into aspects of palaeoecology. Fossil species of Australian-Pacific mekosuchine genus Mekosuchus have been described as dwarf, primarily ...
Michael Stein +2 more
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Asociacion faunistica de vertebrados mesozoicos de la localidad de Galve (Teruel)
Estudios Geologicos, 2002 Los sedimentos del Tithónico-Barremiense de la Cuenca Ibérica aflorantes en los alrededores de la localidad de Galve (Teniel), son particularmente ricos en restos de vertebrados mesozoicos.
B. Sánchez Hemández
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New remains of
Fossil Record, 2013 The fourth complete skull of the marine crocodilian Machimosaurus von Meyer, 1837 is hereby described together with an associated complete mandible and disarticulated postcranial elements from the Kimmeridgian of Neuffen, Germany.
J. E. Martin, P. Vincent
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New remains of Machimosaurus hugii von Meyer, 1837 (Crocodilia, Thalattosuchia) from the Kimmeridgian of Germany [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2013 The fourth complete skull of the marine crocodilian Machimosaurus von Meyer, 1837 is hereby described together with an associated complete mandible and disarticulated postcranial elements from the Kimmeridgian of Neuffen, Germany.
J. E. Martin, P. Vincent
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Geo&Bio, 2018 The paper deals with the study of the comparative osteological collection of extant amphibians and reptiles deposited in the Department of Palaeontology of the National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine.
V. Yanenko, O. Kovalchuk, N. Smirnov
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Inference of the protokaryotypes of amniotes and tetrapods and the evolutionary processes of microchromosomes from comparative gene mapping. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Comparative genome analysis of non-avian reptiles and amphibians provides important clues about the process of genome evolution in tetrapods. However, there is still only limited information available on the genome structures of these organisms ...
Yoshinobu Uno +14 more
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Antimicrobial Peptides in Reptiles
Pharmaceuticals, 2014 Reptiles are among the oldest known amniotes and are highly diverse in their morphology and ecological niches. These animals have an evolutionarily ancient innate-immune system that is of great interest to scientists trying to identify new and useful ...
Monique L. van Hoek
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