Volume of the crocodilian brain and endocast during ontogeny. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Understanding complex situations and planning difficult actions require a brain of appropriate size. Animal encephalisation provides an indirect information about these abilities.
Daniel Jirak, Jiri Janacek
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Brain - Endocast Relationship in the Australian Lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, Elucidated from Tomographic Data (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Although the brains of the three extant lungfish genera have been previously described, the spatial relationship between the brain and the neurocranium has never before been fully described nor quantified.
Alice M Clement +3 more
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An additional brain endocast of the ictidosaur Riograndia guaibensis (Eucynodontia: Probainognathia): intraspecific variation of endocranial traits [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2021 Recently, the morphology and encephalization of the brain endocast of the Triassic non-mammaliaform probainognathian cynodont Riograndia guaibensis were studied. Here, we analyzed the brain endocast of an additional specimen of this species.
LEONARDO KERBER +6 more
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The cranial endocast of Dipnorhynchus sussmilchi (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi) and the interrelationships of stem-group lungfishes [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 The first virtual cranial endocast of a lungfish from the Early Devonian, Dipnorhynchus sussmilchi, is described. Dipnorhynchus, only the fourth Devonian lungfish for which a near complete cranial endocast is known, is a key taxon for clarifying ...
Alice M. Clement +3 more
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Brain Reconstruction Across the Fish-Tetrapod Transition; Insights From Modern Amphibians
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The fish-tetrapod transition (which incorporates the related fin-limb and water-land transitions) is celebrated as one of the most important junctions in vertebrate evolution.
Alice M. Clement +4 more
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A new method for reconstructing brain morphology: applying the brain-neurocranial spatial relationship in an extant lungfish to a fossil endocast [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Lungfish first appeared in the geological record over 410 million years ago and are the closest living group of fish to the tetrapods. Palaeoneurological investigations into the group show that unlike numerous other fishes—but more similar to those in ...
Alice M. Clement +4 more
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New Remains of Scandiavis mikkelseni Inform Avian Phylogenetic Relationships and Brain Evolution
Diversity, 2021 Although an increasing number of studies are combining skeletal and neural morphology data in a phylogenetic context, most studies do not include extinct taxa due to the rarity of preserved endocasts.
Miriam Heingård +3 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Extinct scelidotheriine sloths are among the most peculiar fossil mammals from South America. In recent decades, the external cranial anatomy of Pleistocene scelidotheres such as Scelidotherium, Catonyx, and Valgipes has been the subject of numerous ...
Alberto Boscaini +8 more
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Paleoneuroanatomy of the European lambeosaurine dinosaur Arenysaurus ardevoli [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 The neuroanatomy of hadrosaurid dinosaurs is well known from North America and Asia. In Europe only a few cranial remains have been recovered that include the braincase.
P Cruzado-Caballero +3 more
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First endocranial description of a South American hadrosaurid: The neuroanatomy of Secernosaurus koerneri from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2018 The endocranial morphology of Secernosaurus koerneri (= Kritosaurus australis junior synonym), a hadrosaurid from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina, was studied using latex and digital endocasts based on three fragmentary braincases.
Marcos G. Becerra +3 more
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