Importance of the postcranial skeleton in eusuchian phylogeny: Reassessing the systematics of allodaposuchid crocodylians. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Our current knowledge on the crocodyliform evolution is strongly biased towards the skull morphology, and the postcranial skeleton is usually neglected in many taxonomic descriptions.
Alejandro Blanco
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The postcranial skeleton of Boreogomphodon (Cynodontia: Traversodontidae) from the Upper Triassic of North Carolina, USA and the comparison with other traversodontids [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Postcranial remains of Boreogomphodon from the Upper Triassic of North Carolina are described and compared to those of other known traversodontid cynodonts.
Jun Liu +2 more
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The postcranial skeleton of Cerrejonisuchus improcerus (Crocodyliformes: Dyrosauridae) and the unusual anatomy of dyrosaurids [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Dyrosauridae is a clade of neosuchian crocodyliforms that diversified in terrestrial and aquatic environments across the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition.
Isaure Scavezzoni, Valentin Fischer
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The postcranial skeleton of Vagaceratops irvinensis (Dinosauria, Ceratopsidae)
Vertebrate Anatomy, Morphology, Palaeontology, 2014 The postcranial skeleton of Vagaceratops (= Chasmosaurus) irvinensis (CMN 41357), lacking only the tail, most of the left front and left hind limbs, and portions of the pelvis, is preserved in articulation.
Robert B Holmes
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A high-resolution 3D reconstructed skeleton of the extinct dwarf whale Cetotherium riabinini from Ukraine [PDF]
Scientific DataCetotheres (family Cetotheriidae) were small-sized extinct baleen whales, likely the smallest among toothless baleen whales. Cetotherium riabinini Hofstein, 1948 is known as a single specimen, the holotype.
Svitozar Davydenko +3 more
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A new large hypercarnivorous crocodyliform from the Maastrichtian of Southern Patagonia, Argentina. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe first crocodyliform specimen from the Maastrichtian Chorrillo Formation (Austral Basin, Patagonia) is here described. The discovery was made about 30 km to the SW of the town of El Calafate (Province of Santa Cruz, Argentina) and consists of a ...
Fernando E Novas +8 more
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Skeletal anatomy of the early Permian parareptile Delorhynchus with new information provided by neutron tomography [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Detailed description of the holotype skeleton of Delorhynchus cifellii, made possible through the use of neutron tomography, has yielded important new information about the cranial and postcranial anatomy of this early Permian acleistorhinid parareptile.
Dylan C. T. Rowe +2 more
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Postcranial osteology of Beipiaosaurus inexpectus (Theropoda: Therizinosauria).
PLoS ONE, 2021 Beipiaosaurus inexpectus, from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Sihetun locality, near Beipiao), Liaoning, China, is a key taxon for understanding the early evolution of therizinosaurians.
Chun-Chi Liao +3 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Basilosauridae, fully aquatic archaeocetes from the Eocene, had osteosclerotic or pachyosteosclerotic structure of ribs and, sometimes, other bones. Such a structure is far different from osteoporotic-like bones of modern cetaceans. A microanatomical and
Svitozar Davydenko +2 more
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Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2022 The paper presents the results of a study of paleopathological, age and sex features of nomads of the second half 13th–14th centuries from kurgan burials from the territory of the Lower Volga region.
10.15688/nav.jvolsu.2022.1.11
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