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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Paleoneurology: A Sight for Four Eyes [PDF]
Current Biology, 2018 The 'third eye' of the pineal complex is a curious component of the vertebrate brain associated with light sensation and melatonin production. A fossil lizard with a 'fourth eye' now calls for a reinterpretation of pineal evolution.
Lawrence M. Witmer
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On the “cartilaginous rider” in the endocasts of turtle brain cavities [PDF]
Vertebrate Zoology, 2021 In recent years, paleoneurology became a very popular research field and hundreds of brain-endocasts were described. The interpretation of a dorsal protuberance of the brain-endocast puzzled researchers for a long time, the so-called (cartilaginous ...
Ingmar Werneburg +2 more
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Editorial: The evolution of the brain hardware for language [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Antonio Benítez-Burraco +3 more
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Functional craniology and brain evolution: from paleontology to biomedicine [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2014 Anatomical systems are organized through a network of structural and functional relationships among their elements. This network of relationships is the result of evolution, it represents the actual target of selection, and it generates the set of rules ...
Emiliano eBruner +4 more
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Swiss Journal of PalaeontologyIn 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 +4 more
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Digitized endocasts and brains: a perspective on measurements and historical analyses of the evolution of 172 fossil and extant amniote specimens [PDF]
PeerJThis perspective paper is intended to stimulate future research and discussion of brain evolution in amniotes by sharing 172 digitized endocasts of extinct and extant species spanning 60 million years.
Harry J. Jerison +3 more
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Paleoneurology of the Early Diversification of Triassic Archosauriforms and Pseudosuchians
, 2022 Paleoneurology is a branch of paleontology that is dedicated to the study of the anatomy and evolution of the nervous system of extinct animals. You are reading the introduction to this book about paleoneurology because you are a descendent of a long ...
M. Belén von Baczko +3 more
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Endocranial Morphology of the Primitive Nodosaurid Dinosaur Pawpawsaurus campbelli from the Early Cretaceous of North America. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 BackgroundAnkylosaurs are one of the least explored clades of dinosaurs regarding endocranial anatomy, with few available descriptions of braincase anatomy and even less information on brain and inner ear morphologies.
Ariana Paulina-Carabajal +2 more
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Paleoneurology: Evolving an everted brain in actinopterygian fishes
Current BiologyThe 30,000 or so ray-finned fishes (actinopterygians) are the most diverse group of vertebrates. Yet, their brain is peculiar, with the hemispheres everted unlike in other vertebrates. New fossils suggest how actinopterygian brain architecture evolved.
Matteo Fabbri
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