Digital Endocasting in Comparative Canine Brain Morphology [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020 Computed tomography (CT) is one of the most useful techniques for digitizing bone structures and making endocranial models from the neurocranium. The resulting digital endocasts reflect the morphology of the brain and the associated structures. Our first
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Mandibular musculature constrains brain–endocast disparity between sarcopterygians [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 The transition from water to land by the earliest tetrapods in the Devonian Period is seen as one of the greatest steps in evolution. However, little is understood concerning changes in brain morphology over this transition.
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Postnatal interaction of size and shape in the human endocranium and brain structures. [PDF]
J AnatAncestral egg‐laying Sceloporus had dorsoventrally tall female pelvises. Two of three live‐bearing clades evolved larger bodies and flatter, wider pelvises, likely reflecting relaxed allometric limits and selection for crypsis or thermoregulation in terrestrial habitats.
Takagi K, Kondo O.
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First virtual endocasts of adapiform primates [PDF]
Journal of Human Evolution, 2016 Well-preserved crania of notharctine adapiforms from the Eocene of North America provide the best direct evidence available for inferring neuroanatomy and encephalization in early euprimates (crown primates). Virtual endocasts of the notharctines Notharctus tenebrosus (n = 3) and Smilodectes gracilis (n = 4) from the middle Eocene Bridger formation of ...
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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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Braincase anatomy of the Paleocene crocodyliform Rhabdognathus revealed through high resolution computed tomography [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Dyrosaurids were highly specialized, largely marine, relatives of living crocodylians, and one of the few archosaur lineages to survive the K-Pg extinction.
Arthur Erb, Alan H. Turner
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Diversity, 2020 The shape of the brain influences skull morphology in birds, and both traits are driven by phylogenetic and functional constraints. Studies on avian cranial and neuroanatomical evolution are strengthened by data on extinct birds, but complete, 3D ...
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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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A fresh look at Cladarosymblema narrienense, a tetrapodomorph fish (Sarcopterygii: Megalichthyidae) from the Carboniferous of Australia, illuminated via X-ray tomography [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Background The megalichthyids are one of several clades of extinct tetrapodomorph fish that lived throughout the Devonian–Permian periods. They are advanced “osteolepidid-grade” fishes that lived in freshwater swamp and lake environments, with some taxa ...
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Sulcal pattern variation in extant human endocasts [PDF]
Journal of Anatomy, 2019 AbstractOur knowledge of human brain evolution primarily relies on the interpretation of palaeoneurological evidence. In this context, an endocast or replica of the inside of the bony braincase can be used to reconstruct a timeline of cerebral changes that occurred during human evolution, including changes in topographic extension and structural ...
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