The histology of rhynchosaur (Diapsida, Archosauromorpha) ankylothecodonty. [PDF]
J AnatDental evolution is a major topic in vertebrate palaeontology and provides key insights into the evolutionary history of several amniote clades. This study investigates rhynchosaur ankylothecodonty within the broader evolutionary context of Archosauromorpha.
Mestriner G +7 more
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Growth patterns and life-history strategies in Placodontia (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Placodontia is a clade of durophagous, near shore marine reptiles from Triassic sediments of modern-day Europe, Middle East and China. Although much is known about their primary anatomy and palaeoecology, relatively little has been published regarding ...
Nicole Klein +3 more
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Systematics of putative euparkeriids (Diapsida: Archosauriformes) from the Triassic of China [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 The South African species Euparkeria capensis is of great importance for understanding the early radiation of archosauromorphs (including archosaurs) following the Permo–Triassic mass extinction, as most phylogenetic analyses place it as the sister taxon
Roland B. Sookias +3 more
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A new stem saurian reptile from the late Permian of South Africa and insights into saurian evolution [PDF]
Swiss Journal of PalaeontologyThe evolutionary radiation of diapsid reptiles that includes all extant and most extinct reptiles is well-represented in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossil records, however, the earliest stages recorded in the Paleozoic Era are limited to comparatively few
Ethan Dean Mooney +2 more
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Susceptibility of Gecko Cell Line for Cultivation and Adaptation of Infectious Bursal Disease Virus as an Experimental Vaccine. [PDF]
Vet Med SciFirst successful cultivation of IBDV on reptile‐derived Z1 cells yields high‐titre virus and induces immunity in chickens. This scalable, egg‐free platform offers a promising alternative for vaccine production, leveraging evolutionary kinship between reptiles and birds for next‐generation poultry disease control.
Dolatabad SA, Namavari M, Behbahan NGG.
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A new sphenodontian (Diapsida: Lepidosauria) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of Germany and its implications for the mode of sphenodontian evolution [PDF]
BMC Ecology and EvolutionThe Arnstadt Formation of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany has yielded some of Germany’s most substantial finds of Late Triassic tetrapods, including the sauropodomorph Plateosaurus and the stem-turtle Proganochelys quenstedti. Here, we describe an almost complete
Lisa S. Freisem +3 more
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The holotype of the basal archosauromorph Prolacerta broomi revisited [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 Prolacerta broomi is one of the most important of fossil reptiles. First considered as one of the earliest members of squamates, this basal archosauromorph has been used as a model for diapsid morphological evolution ever since its discovery, playing ...
GABRIELA SOBRAL
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Trifold origin of the reptilian ear ossicle and its relation to the evolutionary modification of the temporal skull region. [PDF]
J AnatThe columella‐complex in reptile middle ears involves the footplate, columella shaft, and extracolumella. The latter is partly of quadrate developmental origin, whereas the footplate derives from the mesodermal otic capsule, the shaft and another part of the extracolumella from the hyoid arch.
Werneburg I, Bronzati M.
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CARINTHIASUCHUS KANDUTSCHI, A NEW ARCHOSAUR (REPTILIA: DIAPSIDA) FROM THE TRIASSIC OF AUSTRIA
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e StratigrafiaA partial skeleton of a small reptile with a distinctive maxilla, dentition, caudal vertebrae and osteoderms from the marine Partnach Formation (Ladinian-earliest Carnian) near Jadersdorf (Gitschtal, Hermagor) in the Gailtal Alps of Carinthia (Austria),
Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia, ANDREA CAU
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Colobops: a juvenile rhynchocephalian reptile (Lepidosauromorpha), not a diminutive archosauromorph with an unusually strong bite [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Correctly identifying taxa at the root of major clades or the oldest clade-representatives is critical for meaningful interpretations of evolution. A small, partially crushed skull from the Late Triassic (Norian) of Connecticut, USA, originally described
Torsten M. Scheyer +5 more
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