Skull shape and feeding strategy in Sphenodon and other Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida: Lepidosauria) [PDF]
Journal of Morphology, 2008 AbstractThe Rhynchocephalia are a group of small diapsid reptiles that were globally distributed during the early Mesozoic. By contrast, the only extant representatives, Sphenodon punctatus and S. guntheri (Tuatara), are restricted to New Zealand off‐shore islands.
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О находке хористодер (Diapsida, Choristodera) в нижнем мелу Западной Сибири
Палеонтологический журнал, 2015 Из нижнемелового местонахождения Шестаково 1 (Кемеровская обл., Россия) описаны остатки (фрагменты зубных костей, позвонки) хористодер Choristodera indet. Шестаковская форма характеризуется примитивными чертами строения позвонков (слияние невральных дуг и тел шейных позвонков, удлиненные туловищные позвонки) и наличием складок дентина в основании зубов
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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2007 A nearly complete but poorly preserved amniote from the Middle-Upper Norian of Friuli (NE Italy), previously attributed to a new species of the protorosaur genus Langobardisaurus (L. rossii Bizzarini & Muscio, 1995), is re-described.
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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2005 The skull of the holotype of the Late Triassic diapsid reptile Megalancosaurus preonensis is described for the first time. Its study revealed affinities with archosauromorph reptiles along with striking similarities with basal pterosaurs, apart for the ...
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Multiple origins of a frameshift insertion in a mitochondrial gene in birds and turtles. [PDF]
Gigascience, 2021 Andreu-Sánchez S +3 more
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Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, 2015 During the late Campanian and early Maastrichtian, Northern Patagonia suffered the first stage of the Atlantic marine ingression that reached the Neuquén Basin. The Allen and La Colonia formations show the early stages of this change, and were deposited
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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 Klein N +6 more
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An intriguing new diapsid reptile with evidence of mandibulo-dental pathology from the early Permian of Oklahoma revealed by neutron tomography. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Mooney ED, Maho T, Bevitt JJ, Reisz RR.
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Extended embryo retention and viviparity in the first amniotes. [PDF]
Nat Ecol Evol, 2023 Jiang B +7 more
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Disparity and geometry of the skull in Archosauria (Reptilia: Diapsida) [PDF]
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2003 JESÚS MARUGÁN-LOBÓN +1 more
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