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List of works by Michael W. Caldwell

"Without a leg to stand on": on the evolution and development of axial elongation and limblessness in tetrapods

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A fishy mosasaur: the axial skeleton of Plotosaurus (Reptilia, Squamata) reassessed

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A mid-Cretaceous embryonic-to-neonate snake in amber from Myanmar

scientific article published on 18 July 2018

A new Early Cretaceous lizard species from Brazil, and the phylogenetic position of the oldest known South American squamates

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A new basal mosasauroid from the Cenomanian (U. Cretaceous) of Slovenia with a review of mosasauroid phylogeny and evolution

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A new genus and subfamily of mosasaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of northern Italy

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A new halisaurine mosasaur (Squamata: Halisaurinae) from Japan: the first record in the western Pacific realm and the first documented insights into binocular vision in mosasaurs

A new mosasaurine from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) phosphates of Morocco and its implications for mosasaurine systematics

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

A new species OfTaniwhasaurus(Mosasauridae, Tylosaurinae) from the upper Santonian-lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Hokkaido, Japan

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A new species of longirostrine plioplatecarpine mosasaur (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco, with a re-evaluation of the problematic taxon ‘Platecarpus’ ptychodon

scholarly article published in 2020

A new species of marine ophidiomorph lizard,Adriosaurus skrbinensis, from the Upper Cretaceous of Slovenia

scientific article (publication date: 18 May 2010)

A new specimen of Plioplatecarpus (Mosasauridae) from the lower Maastrichtian of Alberta: comments on allometry, functional morphology, and paleoecology

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A redescription ofAigialosaurus (= Opetiosaurus) bucchichi(Kornhuber, 1901) (Squamata: Aigialosauridae) with comments on mosasauroid systematics

A small, exquisitely preserved specimen ofMosasaurus missouriensis(Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the upper Campanian of the Bearpaw Formation, western Canada, and the first stomach contents for the genus

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A snake with legs from the marine Cretaceous of the Middle East

scientific article published in Nature

A stem acrodontan lizard in the Cretaceous of Brazil revises early lizard evolution in Gondwana

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ACROCERID (INSECTA: DIPTERA) LIFE HISTORIES, BEHAVIORS, HOST SPIDERS (ARACHNIDA: ARANEIDA), AND DISTRIBUTION RECORDS

scholarly article by Alan Cady et al published October 1993 in The Canadian Entomologist

ADRIOSAURUS AND THE AFFINITIES OF MOSASAURS, DOLICHOSAURS, AND SNAKES

scientific article published in 2000

An Upper Jurassic ichthyosaur (Ichthyosauria: Ophthalmosauridae) from the Bowser Basin, British Columbia

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An unusual tylosaurine mosasaur from New Zealand: a new skull ofTaniwhasaurus oweni(Lower Haumurian; Upper Cretaceous)

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Aquatic adaptation, cranial kinesis, and the skull of the mosasaurine mosasaur Plotosaurus bennisoni

Aquatic adaptations in the four limbs of the snake-like reptile Tetrapodophis from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil

scientific article (publication date: November 2016)

Borioteiioidean lizard skulls from Kleskun Hill (Wapiti Formation; upper Campanian), west-central Alberta, Canada

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Comparison of the body formand squamation of “fork-tailed” agnathans with that of conventional thelodonts

scientific article published in 1995

Convergent evolution in aquatic tetrapods: insights from an exceptional fossil mosasaur

scientific article published in 2010

Cranial anatomy of the Galápagos marine iguana Amblyrhynchus cristatus (Squamata: Iguanidae)

Deconstructing the Gestalt: New concepts and tests of homology, as exemplified by a re‐conceptualization of “microstomy” in squamates

scientific article published on 19 April 2021

Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new species ofConiasaurusOwen, 1850 (Squamata)

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Details of a new skull and articulated cervical column ofDinilysia patagonicaWoodward, 1901

Discovery of the oldest South American fossil lizard illustrates the cosmopolitanism of early South American squamates

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

Emended diagnosis and phylogenetic relationships of the Upper Cretaceous fossil snakeNajash rionegrinaApesteguía and Zaher, 2006

scholarly article by Alessandro Palci et al published January 2013 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Erratum

scholarly article published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Exceptionally preserved skeletons of the Cretaceous snakeDinilysia patagonicaWoodward, 1901

First record of live birth in Cretaceous ichthyosaurs: closing an 80 million year gap

scientific article (publication date: 7 August 2003)

First report of a pelvic girdle in the fossil snakeWonambi naracoortensisSmith, 1976, and a revised diagnosis for the genus

From fins to limbs to fins: limb evolution in fossil marine reptiles

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Halisaurussp. (Mosasauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous (?Santonian) of east-central Peru, and the taxonomic utility of mosasaur cervical vertebrae

High-resolution stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of the intertidal flats to lagoons of the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Hvar Island, Croatia, on the Adriatic Carbonate Platform

scholarly article by Cajus Diedrich et al published 18 November 2011 in Carbonates and Evaporites

Histology of tooth attachment tissues and plicidentine in Varanus (Reptilia: Squamata), and a discussion of the evolution of amniote tooth attachment

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Limb osteology and ossification patterns inCryptoclidus(Reptilia: Plesiosauroidea) with a review of sauropterygian limbs

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Lithological analysis of the Lower Devonian vertebrate-bearing beds at the MOTH locality, N.W.T., Canada: insights to taphonomy and depositional setting

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Live birth in Cretaceous marine lizards (mosasauroids)

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2001)

Megaevolutionary dynamics and the timing of evolutionary innovation in reptiles

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

Modified perichondral ossification and the evolution of paddle-like limbs in ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs

Mosasaurine mosasaurs (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from northern Italy

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Mosasauroid phylogeny under multiple phylogenetic methods provides new insights on the evolution of aquatic adaptations in the group

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New Silurian and Devonian fork-tailed 'thelodonts' are jawless vertebrates with stomachs and deep bodies

scientific article published in Nature

New and biostratigraphically useful thelodonts from the Silurian of the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada

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New data on the postcranial anatomy of the California mosasaurPlotosaurus bennisoni(Camp, 1942) (Upper Cretaceous: Maastrichtian), and the taxonomic status ofP. tuckeri(Camp, 1942)

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New exceptional specimens ofPrognathodon overtoni(Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the upper Campanian of Alberta, Canada, and the systematics and ecology of the genus

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New material of the mosasaurPlioplatecarpus nichollsaeCuthbertson et al., 2007, clarifies problematic features of the holotype specimen

New palaeoenvironmental model for the Komen (Slovenia) Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) fossil lagerstätte

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New specimens ofPlatecarpus planifrons(Cope, 1874) (Squamata: Mosasauridae) and a revised taxonomy of the genus

On the aquatic squamateDolichosaurus longicollisOwen, 1850 (Cenomanian, Upper Cretaceous), and the evolution of elongate necks in Squamates

On the phylogenetic relationships ofPachyrhachiswithin snakes: a response to Zaher (1998)

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Ontogeny and evolution of the elasmosaurid neck highlight greater diversity of Antarctic plesiosaurians

scientific article published in 2022

Ontogeny and phylogeny of the mesopodial skeleton in mosasauroid reptiles

scholarly article by Michael W. Caldwell published April 1996 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Osteology, phylogeny, and functional morphology of two Jurassic lizard species and the early evolution of scansoriality in geckoes

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Phylogenetic analysis of some Silurian rostroconchs (Mollusca) from northwestern Canada

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Platecarpus tympaniticus(Squamata, Mosasauridae): osteology of an exceptionally preserved specimen and its insights into the acquisition of a streamlined body shape in mosasaurs

Plicidentine and the repeated origins of snake venom fangs

scientific article published in 2021

Primary homologies of the circumorbital bones of snakes

scientific article published on 30 April 2013

REEVALUATION OF THE CRETACEOUS MARINE LIZARD ACTEOSAURUS CRASSICOSTATUS CALLIGARIS, 1993

scientific article published in 2004

Re-characterization of Tylosaurus nepaeolicus (Cope, 1874) and Tylosaurus kansasensis Everhart, 2005: Ontogeny or sympatry?

scientific article (publication date: October 2016)

Reacquisition of the lower temporal bar in sexually dimorphic fossil lizards provides a rare case of convergent evolution

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Reassessment and reassignment of the early Maastrichtian mosasaurHainosaurus bernardiDollo, 1885, toTylosaurusMarsh, 1872

scientific article (publication date: 22 February 2016)

Reassessment of Turonian mosasaur material from the ‘Middle Chalk’ (England, U.K.), and the status ofMosasaurus gracilisOwen, 1849

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Redescription and phylogenetic position of the Adriatic (Upper Cretaceous; Cenomanian) dolichosaurPontosaurus lesinensis(Kornhuber, 1873)

scholarly article by Stephanie E. Pierce & Michael W. Caldwell published 11 June 2004 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Redescription and rediagnosis of the tylosaurine mosasaurHainosaurus pembinensisNicholls, 1988, asTylosaurus pembinensis(Nicholls, 1988)

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Redescription of Acteosaurus tommasinii von Meyer, 1860, and a discussion of evolutionary trends within the clade Ophidiomorpha

scientific article (publication date: 29 January 2010)

Redescription of Aigialosaurus dalmaticus Kramberger, 1892, a Cenomanian mosasauroid lizard from Hvar Island, Croatia

scholarly article by Alex R Dutchak & Michael W. Caldwell published December 2006 in Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Redescription of the holotype of Platecarpus tympaniticus Cope, 1869 (Mosasauridae: Plioplatecarpinae), and its implications for the alpha taxonomy of the genus

Redescription, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology of Coniasaurus crassidens Owen, 1850 (Squamata) from the Lower Chalk (Cretaceous; Cenomanian) of SE England

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Rediagnosis and redescription of Mosasaurus hoffmannii (Squamata: Mosasauridae) and an assessment of species assigned to the genus Mosasaurus

scientific article published in 2016

Reevaluation of the anatomy of the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) hind-limbed marine fossil snakesPachyrhachis,Haasiophis, andEupodophis

article published in 2013

Robert “Bob” Lynn Carroll (1938 - 2020)

Sedimentary environments and depositional characteristics of the Middle to Upper Eocene whale-bearing succession in the Fayum Depression, Egypt

scholarly article by ZAKI A. ABDEL-FATTAH et al published February 2010 in Sedimentology

Skin of the Cretaceous mosasaur Plotosaurus: implications for aquatic adaptations in giant marine reptiles

scientific article (publication date: 23 August 2009)

Soft-tissue preservation in a 95 million year old marine lizard: form, function, and aquatic adaptation

Sphenodontian phylogeny and the impact of model choice in Bayesian morphological clock estimates of divergence times and evolutionary rates

scientific article published on 07 December 2020

Successive climate crises in the deep past drove the early evolution and radiation of reptiles

scientific article published in 2022

Taxonomic re-assignment of the first-known mosasaur specimen from Japan, and a discussion of circum-pacific mosasaur paleobiogeography

Tetrapodophis amplectus is not a snake: re-assessment of the osteology, phylogeny and functional morphology of an Early Cretaceous dolichosaurid lizard

The Furcacaudiformes: a new order of jawless vertebrates with thelodont scales, based on articulated Silurian and Devonian fossils from northern Canada

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The first freshwater mosasauroid (Upper Cretaceous, Hungary) and a new clade of basal mosasauroids ⬇️

scientific article published in 2012

The first ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic of the Umbrian–Marchean Apennines (Marche, Central Italy)

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The oldest known snakes from the Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous provide insights on snake evolution ⬇️

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The origin of snake feeding

scientific article published in Nature

The pectoral girdle and forelimb ofCarsosaurus marchesetti(Aigialosauridae), with a preliminary phylogenetic analysis of mosasauroids and varanoids

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The structure and phylogenetic distribution of amniote plicidentine

scholarly article by Erin E. Maxwell et al published May 2011 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

The upper cretaceous snake Dinilysia patagonica Smith-Woodward, 1901, and the crista circumfenestralis of snakes

scientific article published on 4 June 2014

TheGlossifungitesIchnofacies and Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis: A Case Study from Middle to Upper Eocene Successions in Fayum, Egypt

scholarly article by Zaki A. Abdel-Fattah et al published 6 September 2016 in Ichnos

Three-dimensionally preserved integument reveals hydrodynamic adaptations in the extinct marine lizard Ectenosaurus (Reptilia, Mosasauridae)

scientific article published in 2011

Tooth attachment and pleurodont implantation in lizards: Histology, development, and evolution

scientific article published on 29 December 2020

Tooth histology in the cretaceous ichthyosaur Platypterygius australis, and its significance for the conservation and divergence of mineralized tooth tissues in amniotes

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Tooth histology, attachment, and replacement in the Ichthyopterygia reviewed in an evolutionary context

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Tooth socket histology in the Cretaceous snakeDinilysia, with a review of amniote dental attachment tissues

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Two new plioplatecarpine (Squamata, Mosasauridae) genera from the Upper Cretaceous of North America, and a global phylogenetic analysis of plioplatecarpines

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Vestigial forelimbs and axial elongation in a 95 million-year-old non-snake squamate

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