The osteology of the basal archosauromorph Tasmaniosaurus triassicus from the Lower Triassic of Tasmania, Australia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Proterosuchidae are the most taxonomically diverse archosauromorph reptiles sampled in the immediate aftermath of the Permo-Triassic mass extinction and represent the earliest radiation of Archosauriformes (archosaurs and closely related species ...
Martín D Ezcurra
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Endocranial anatomy of the ceratopsid dinosaur Triceratops and interpretations of sensory and motor function [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Triceratops is one of the well-known Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaurs. The ecology of Triceratops has been controversial because of its unique morphological features. However, arguments based on brain and inner ear structures have been scarce.
Rina Sakagami, Soichiro Kawabe
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Journal of Anatomy, 2020 AbstractEndocasts (i.e., replicas of the inner surface of the bony braincase) constitute a critical proxy for qualifying and quantifying variations in brain shape and organization in extinct taxa. In the absence of brain tissues preserved in the fossil record, endocasts provide the only direct evidence of brain evolution. However, debates on whether or
Dumoncel, Jean +8 more
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Re-description of the braincase of the rebbachisaurid sauropod Limaysaurus tessonei and novel endocranial information based on CT scans [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2021 CT scans of the type braincase of Limaysaurus tessonei (MUCPv-205) allowed the first study of the endocranial cavities (brain and inner ear) for this South American taxon. Comparisons of the cranial endocast of L.
ARIANA PAULINA-CARABAJAL, JORGE O. CALVO
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Big Cat Coalitions: A comparative analysis of regional brain volumes in Felidae
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2016 Broad-based species comparisons across mammalian orders suggest a number of factors that might influence the evolution of large brains. However, the relationship between these factors and total and regional brain size remains unclear.
Sharleen T Sakai +4 more
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Zoological Letters, 2022 Background The inner ear morphology and size are linked to hearing and balance ability. The goal of this study was to determine the morphology and morphometrics of the dromedary camel's inner ear and how it influences hearing accommodation and ...
Safwat Ali +4 more
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Palaeoecological inferences for the fossil Australian snakes Yurlunggur and Wonambi (Serpentes, Madtsoiidae) [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Madtsoiids are among the most basal snakes, with a fossil record dating back to the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian). Most representatives went extinct by the end of the Eocene, but some survived in Australia until the Late Cenozoic.
Alessandro Palci +4 more
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DiversityPaleoneurological studies of mosasaurids are few and limited to old partial reconstructions made from latex casts on Platecarpus and Clidastes. Here, the brain endocasts of three specimens of the early mosasaurid Tethysaurus nopcsai from the Turonian of ...
Rémi Allemand +5 more
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Digital cranial endocast of Hyopsodus (Mammalia, "Condylarthra"): a case of paleogene terrestrial echolocation? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 We here describe the endocranial cast of the Eocene archaic ungulate Hyopsodus lepidus AMNH 143783 (Bridgerian, North America) reconstructed from X-ray computed microtomography data.
Maeva J Orliac +2 more
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Neuroanatomy of the marine Jurassic turtle Plesiochelys etalloni (Testudinata, Plesiochelyidae). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Turtles are one of the least explored clades regarding endocranial anatomy with few available descriptions of the brain and inner ear of extant representatives.
Ariana Paulina Carabajal +3 more
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