Revisiting the choristodere and stem-lepidosaur specimens of the Guimarota Beds (Kimmeridgian, Portugal): taxonomic implications [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaThe Guimarota beds (Kimmeridgian, Portugal) constitute one of the richest microvertebrate assemblages for the Upper Jurassic, which include a diverse fauna of small reptiles.
ALEXANDRE R.D. GUILLAUME +2 more
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Pseudosuchian thermometabolism: A review of the past two decades. [PDF]
Anat Rec (Hoboken)Abstract Pseudosuchia, one of the two main clades of Archosauria, is today only represented by some 20 extant species, the crocodilians, representing only a fraction of its extinct diversity. Extant crocodilians are ectotherms but present morphological and anatomical features usually associated with endothermy.
Faure-Brac MG.
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3D model and accompanying dataset related to the publication: A new, exceptionally preserved juvenile specimen of Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi (Diapsida) and implications for Mesozoic marine diapsid phylogeny [PDF]
, 2018 The present contribution contains the 3D model and dataset analyzed in the following publication: Scheyer, T. M., J. M. Neenan, T. Bodogan, H. Furrer, C. Obrist, and M. Plamondon. 2017.
Bodogan, Timea +5 more
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Tanystropheid archosauromorphs in the Lower Triassic of Gondwana [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2018 Tanystropheidae is a clade of early archosauromorphs with a reported distribution ranging from the Early to the Late Triassic of Asia, Europe, and North America.
Tiane Macedo De Oliveira +4 more
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Morphology and function of the palatal dentition in Choristodera [PDF]
, 2016 Choristoderes are a group of extinct freshwater reptiles that were distributed throughout Laurasia from the Middle Jurassic to the Miocene. They are inferred to have had a lifestyle similar to that of extant gavialid crocodiles, but they differed from ...
Evans, SE, Matsumoto, R
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Macroevolutionary patterns in Rhynchocephalia:is the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) a living fossil? [PDF]
, 2017 The tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus, known from 32 small islands around New Zealand, has often been noted as a classic ‘living fossil’ because of its apparently close resemblance to its Mesozoic forebears and because of a long, low-diversity history.
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Early Cretaceous choristoderes (Diapsida, Choristodera) from Siberia, Russia
Cretaceous Research, 2017 Abstract There are ten known Lower Cretaceous localities for skeletal remains of choristoderes in Siberia (Russia). Choristoderan remains at all these localities are represented by isolated bones, usually by isolated vertebrae of Choristodera indet.
Skutschas, Pavel P., Vitenko, Dmitriy D.
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A new sphenodontian (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia) from the Late Triassic of Argentina and the early origin of the herbivore opisthodontians [PDF]
, 2013 Sphenodontians were a successful group of rhynchocephalian reptiles that dominated the fossil record of Lepidosauria during the Triassic and Jurassic. Although evidence of extinction is seen at the end of the Laurasian Early Cretaceous, they appeared to
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First records of diapsid Palacrodon from the Norian, Late Triassic Chinle Formation of Arizona, and their biogeographic implications [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2018 Vertebrates from the Triassic Period have broadly disparate tooth shapes and dentition patterns, the result of intense morphospace experimentation following the Permo-Triassic extinction.
Ben T. Kligman +2 more
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Rhynchocephalians (Diapsida: Lepidosauria) from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India [PDF]
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2001 Despite their rarity today, rhynchocephalians formed a diverse Early Mesozoic clade with a comparatively good fossil record. They had a Pangaean distribution in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic, although the Gondwanan record remains more limited than the Laurasian one. We report here on new sphenodontian material from the Jurassic Kota Formation of
S. E. EVANS +2 more
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