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List of works by Roger M. H. Smith

A Middle Triassic cynodont fauna from Namibia and its implications for the biogeography of Gondwana

scholarly article by Fernando Abdala & Roger M. H. Smith published 12 September 2009 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

A New Late Permian Burnetiamorph From Zambia Confirms Exceptional Levels of Endemism in Burnetiamorpha (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) and an Updated Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation

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A new Late Permian captorhinid reptile: a first record from the South African Karoo

A new archosaur from the Manda beds (Anisian, Middle Triassic) of southern Tanzania and its implications for character state optimizations at Archosauria and Pseudosuchia

scholarly article by Sterling Nesbitt et al published 19 September 2014 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

A new burnetiid (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) from the Upper Permian of South Africa and its biogeographic implications

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A new galesaurid (Therapsida: Cynodontia) from the Lower Triassic of South Africa

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A new large cynodont from the Late Permian (Lopingian) of the South African Karoo Basin and its phylogenetic significance

scientific article published in 2019

A new reptile from the lower Permian of Brazil (Karutia fortunata gen. et sp. nov.) and the interrelationships of Parareptilia

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A new silesaurid from the upper Ntawere Formation of Zambia (Middle Triassic) demonstrates the rapid diversification of Silesauridae (Avemetatarsalia, Dinosauriformes)

A new species of burnetiid (Therapsida, Burnetiamorpha) from the early Wuchiapingian of South Africa and implications for the evolutionary ecology of the family Burnetiidae

scholarly article by Michael O. Day et al published 29 April 2018 in Papers in Palaeontology

A new specimen of Promoschorhynchus (Therapsida: Therocephalia: Akidnognathidae) from the Lower Triassic of South Africa and its implications for theriodont survivorship across the Permo-Triassic boundary

scientific article (publication date: 17 March 2011)

A novel archosauromorph from Antarctica and an updated review of a high-latitude vertebrate assemblage in the wake of the end-Permian mass extinction

A primitive ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Triassic of South Africa, and the early evolution and diversification of Ornithischia

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A second burnetiamorph therapsid from the Permian Teekloof Formation of South Africa and its associated fauna

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A temnospondyl trackway from the early Mesozoic of western Gondwana and its implications for basal tetrapod locomotion

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An early geikiid dicynodont from the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone (late Permian) of South Africa

scientific article (publication date: 2017)

Brazilian Permian dvinosaurs (Amphibia, Temnospondyli): revised description and phylogeny

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Captorhinid reptiles from the lower Permian Pedra de Fogo Formation, Piauí, Brazil: the earliest herbivorous tetrapods in Gondwana

scientific article published on 06 March 2020

Changing palaeoenvironments and tetrapod populations in the Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone (Karoo Basin, South Africa) indicate early onset of the Permo-Triassic mass extinction

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Dynamic locomotor capabilities revealed by early dinosaur trackmakers from southern Africa

scientific article (publication date: 6 October 2009)

Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira

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Evidence from South Africa for a protracted end-Permian extinction on land

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First record of a tapinocephalid (Therapsida: Dinocephalia) from the Ruhuhu Formation (Songea Group) of southern Tanzania

scholarly article by Rachel V. Simon et al published 14 July 2010 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

New Permian fauna from tropical Gondwana

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New data on the Triassic temnospondyls from the Karoo rift basins of Tanzania and Zambia

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New dicynodonts (Therapsida, Anomodontia) and updated tetrapod stratigraphy of the Permian Ruhuhu Formation (Songea Group, Ruhuhu Basin) of southern Tanzania

scholarly article by Kenneth D. Angielczyk et al published 19 September 2014 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

New information on the braincase and inner ear of Euparkeria capensis Broom: implications for diapsid and archosaur evolution.

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New information on the morphology and stratigraphic range of the mid-Permian gorgonopsian Eriphostoma microdon Broom, 1911

New whaitsioids (Therapsida: Therocephalia) from the Teekloof Formation of South Africa and therocephalian diversity during the end-Guadalupian extinction

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Permian tetrapods from the Sahara show climate-controlled endemism in Pangaea

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Provincialization of terrestrial faunas following the end-Permian mass extinction

scientific article (publication date: 14 May 2013)

Strengthening Western Gondwanan correlations: A Brazilian Dicynodont (Synapsida, Anomodontia) in the Middle Triassic of Namibia

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Tapinocephalids (Therapsida, Dinocephalia) from the Permian Madumabisa Mudstone Formation (Lower Karoo, Mid-Zambezi Basin) of southern Zambia

Taxonomic revision and new observations on the postcranial skeleton, biogeography, and biostratigraphy of the dicynodont genus Dicynodontoides, the senior subjective synonym of Kingoria (Therapsida, Anomodontia)

scholarly article by Kenneth D. Angielczyk et al published 12 December 2009 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Tetrapod fauna of the lowermost Usili Formation (Songea Group, Ruhuhu Basin) of southern Tanzania, with a new burnetiid record

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The Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone (Lopingian), South Africa: A proposed biostratigraphy based on a new compilation of stratigraphic ranges

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The Permian mammal-like herbivore Diictodon, the oldest known example of sexually dimorphic armament

scientific article (publication date: 22 January 2003)

The craniomandibular anatomy of the early archosauriform Euparkeria capensis and the dawn of the archosaur skull

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan

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The last "pelycosaur": a varanopid synapsid from the Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone, Middle Permian of South Africa

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The oldest cynodont: new clues on the origin and early diversification of the Cynodontia

scientific article published in 2007

The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Permian of Niger. V. The primitive temnospondylSaharastega moradiensis

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The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Permian of Niger—VII. Cranial anatomy and relationships of Bunostegos akokanensis (Pareiasauria)

Vertebrate Taphonomy of Late Permian Floodplain Deposits in the Southwestern Karoo Basin of South Africa

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