A bird-like skull in a Triassic diapsid reptile increases heterogeneity of the morphological and phylogenetic radiation of Diapsida [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 The Triassic Period saw the first appearance of numerous amniote lineages (e.g. Lepidosauria, Archosauria, Mammalia) that defined Mesozoic ecosystems following the end Permian Mass Extinction, as well as the first major morphological diversification of ...
Adam C. Pritchard, Sterling J. Nesbitt
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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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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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Andean Geology, 2009 New remains of plesiosaurs (Diapsida; Sauropterygia) found in a transported block correlated with upper levels of the Dorotea Formation, Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) are describedherein.
Rodrigo A Otero +2 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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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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Comparative bone histology of two thalattosaurians (Diapsida: Thalattosauria): Askeptosaurus italicus from the Alpine Triassic (Middle Triassic) and a Thalattosauroidea indet. from the Carnian of Oregon (Late Triassic). [PDF]
Swiss J Palaeontol, 2023 Here, we present the first bone histological and microanatomical study of thalattosaurians, an enigmatic group among Triassic marine reptiles.
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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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Inter-relações filogenéticas dos rincossauros (Diapsida, Archosauromorpha) [PDF]
, 2015 Rhynchosauria é um grupo basal de arcossauromorfos (Reptilia, Diapsida) encontrados em rochas triássicas de praticamente todo o mundo, que no Triássico Médio e início do Triássico Superior foram os principais componentes de muitas faunas continentais ...
Montefeltro, Felipe Chinaglia +1 more
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The enigmatic marine reptile nanchangosaurus from the lower triassic of Hubei, China and the phylogenetic affinities of Hupehsuchia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The study of the holotype and of a new specimen of Nanchangosaurus suni (Reptilia; Diapsida; Hupehsuchia) revealed a suite of hitherto unrecognized characters.
Xiao-hong Chen +4 more
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