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Braincase anatomy and palaeoneurology of Venetoraptor gassenae, a lagerpetid pterosauromorph from the Late Triassic of southern Brazil

Palaeontology, Volume 69, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
Abstract There is a growing consensus that pterosaurs and the flightless Lagerpetidae are closely related. This relationship is supported by apomorphies throughout the skeleton, including endocranial character states such as a well‐developed floccular fossa and a tall anterior semicircular canal. Our knowledge of lagerpetid anatomy has been improved by
Lísie V.S. Damke, Leonardo Kerber, Mario Bronzati, Maurício S. Garcia, Martín D. Ezcurra, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Rodrigo T. Müller   +6 more
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Structural extremes in a cretaceous dinosaur.

PLoS ONE, 2007
Fossils of the Early Cretaceous dinosaur, Nigersaurus taqueti, document for the first time the cranial anatomy of a rebbachisaurid sauropod. Its extreme adaptations for herbivory at ground-level challenge current hypotheses regarding feeding function and
Paul C Sereno, Jeffrey A Wilson, Lawrence M Witmer, John A Whitlock, Abdoulaye Maga, Oumarou Ide, Timothy A Rowe   +6 more
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NEUROANATOMY OF THE TITANOSAUR SAUROPOD NARAMBUENATITAN PALOMOI FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS OF PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA

Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, 2020
Narambuenatitan palomoi is a titanosaurian sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of North Patagonia. Considered initially as a basal titanosaur, this taxon has uncertain phylogenetic relationships within the clade.
Ariana Paulina Carabajal, Leonardo Filippi, Fabien Knoll   +2 more
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Petrosal morphology and cochlear function in Mesozoic stem therians.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Here we describe the bony anatomy of the inner ear and surrounding structures seen in three plesiomorphic crown mammalian petrosal specimens. Our study sample includes the triconodont Priacodon fruitaensis from the Upper Jurassic of North America, and ...
Tony Harper, Guillermo W Rougier
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The braincase of the basal sauropod dinosaur Spinophorosaurus and 3D reconstructions of the cranial endocast and inner ear.

PLoS ONE, 2012
BackgroundSauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to walk on land, and, as a result, the evolution of their remarkable adaptations has been of great interest.
Fabien Knoll, Lawrence M Witmer, Francisco Ortega, Ryan C Ridgely, Daniela Schwarz-Wings   +4 more
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Looking for the origins of the human brain: The role of South Africa in the history of palaeoneurology

South African Journal of Science
In 1925, Raymond Arthur Dart published his description and interpretations of the ‘Taung Child’ in the journal Nature, including a description of the natural brain endocast associated with the face and mandible.
Amélie Beaudet, Edwin de Jager, Mirriam Tawane, Brendon Billings   +3 more
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Estimating Endocranial Volume in the Domestic Cat (Felis catus) Using Computed Tomography [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Veterinary Surgery
Changes in brain and endocranial volume size are observed in most mammals during domestication. However, while much attention has been paid to comparing domesticated species with their wild relatives, few studies have focused on the differences between ...
Ebru Eravci Yalin, Sedat Aydoğdu, Ozan Gündemir, Mehmet Saadeddin Öztürk, Margot Michaud   +4 more
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Cranium of Sipalocyon externus (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) with remarks on the paleoneurology of hathliacynids and insights into the Early Miocene sparassodonts of Patagonia, Argentina

Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
In this contribution, we investigate two sparassodonts from the Sarmiento Formation (Colhuehuapian Age; Early Miocene) recovered at the Patagonian locality of Sacanana, Chubut Province, Argentina.
Charlène Gaillard, Analía M. Forasiepi, Sergio D. Tarquini, Ross D. E. MacPhee, Sandrine Ladevèze   +4 more
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Sulci mapping from human cranial endocasts

Key questions in paleoneurology concern the timing and emergence of derived cerebral features within the human lineage. Endocasts are replicas of the internal table of the bony braincase that are widely used in paleoneurology as a proxy for reconstructing a timeline for hominin brain evolution in the fossil record.
De Jager, Edwin||, Risser, Laurent, Mescam, Muriel, Fonta, Caroline||, Beaudet, Amélie||   +4 more
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Comparative Sulcal Morphology of the Late Miocene Fossil Ape, Rudapithecus hungaricus. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Assance GA, Silcox MT, Begun DR.
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