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<i>Hwiccewyrm trispiculum</i> gen. et sp. nov., a new leptopleuronine procolophonid from the Late Triassic of southwest England

scientific article published in 2023

A Late Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur from Europe with Asian affinities

scientific article

A juvenile skull of the primitive ornithischian dinosaurHeterodontosaurus tuckifrom the ‘Stormberg’ of southern Africa

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A lower Carboniferous (Visean) tetrapod trackway represents the earliest record of an edopoid amphibian from the UK

scientific article published in 2019

A new archosauriform (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Manda beds (Middle Triassic) of southwestern Tanzania

scientific article published in 2013

A new dinosaur with theropod affinities from the Late Triassic Santa Maria Formation, South Brazil

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A new kannemeyeriiform dicynodont (Ufudocyclops mukanelai, gen. et sp. nov.) from Subzone C of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, Triassic of South Africa, with implications for biostratigraphic correlation with other African Triassic Faunas

A new large gomphodont from the Triassic of South Africa and its implications for Gondwanan biostratigraphy

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A new phylogenetic analysis of Phytosauria (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) with the application of continuous and geometric morphometric character coding

scientific article published on 10 December 2018

A new pseudosuchian archosaur, Mambawakale ruhuhu gen. et sp. nov., from the Middle Triassic Manda Beds of Tanzania ⬇️

scientific article published in February 2022

A new species of Garjainia Ochev, 1958 (Diapsida: Archosauriformes: Erythrosuchidae) from the Early Triassic of South Africa

scientific article published in 2014

A new species of basal rhynchosaur (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the early Middle Triassic of South Africa, and the early evolution of Rhynchosauria

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A new species ofMetoposaurusfrom the Late Triassic of Portugal and comments on the systematics and biogeography of metoposaurid temnospondyls

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A new specimen elucidates the unique ventilatory macroevolution of ornithischian dinosaurs

A palaeoequatorial ornithischian and new constraints on early dinosaur diversification

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A pathological tail in a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from South Africa: evidence of traumatic amputation?

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A possible ctenosauriscid archosaur from the Middle Triassic Manda Beds of Tanzania

scientific article (publication date: 12 December 2009)

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

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A revision of Sanpasaurus yaoi Young, 1944 from the Early Jurassic of China, and its relevance to the early evolution of Sauropoda (Dinosauria)

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A revision of tetrapod footprints from the late Carboniferous of the West Midlands, UK

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A revision of the early neotheropod genus Sarcosaurus from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian–Sinemurian) of central England

scientific article published in 2020

A temperate palaeodiversity peak in Mesozoic dinosaurs and evidence for Late Cretaceous geographical partitioning

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A unique predator in a unique ecosystem: modelling the apex predator within a Late Cretaceous crocodyliform-dominated fauna from Brazil

scientific article published on 07 April 2020

Air-filled postcranial bones in theropod dinosaurs: physiological implications and the 'reptile'-bird transition

scientific article published on 07 July 2011

An analysis of pterosaurian biogeography: implications for the evolutionary history and fossil record quality of the first flying vertebrates

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An exceptional fossil skull from South America and the origins of the archosauriform radiation

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Anatomy and cranial functional morphology of the small-bodied dinosaur Fruitadens haagarorum from the Upper Jurassic of the USA

scientific article published on 11 April 2012

Assessing conflict between early neornithischian tree topologies

scientific article published in 2021

Basal dinosauriform and theropod dinosaurs from the mid-late Norian (Late Triassic) of Poland: implications for Triassic dinosaur evolution and distribution

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Biases with the Generalized Euclidean Distance measure in disparity analyses with high levels of missing data

scientific article published in 2019

Biology, not environment, drives major patterns in maximum tetrapod body size through time ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 23 August 2012)

Body size evolution in Mesozoic birds: little evidence for Cope's rule

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Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians ⬇️

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Climatic controls on the ecological ascendancy of dinosaurs

Climatic drivers of latitudinal variation in Late Triassic tetrapod diversity

scientific article published in 2020

Colobops: a juvenile rhynchocephalian reptile (Lepidosauromorpha), not a diminutive archosauromorph with an unusually strong bite

scientific article published on 25 March 2020

Comment on "A well-preserved Archaeopteryx specimen with theropod features"

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Competition and constraint drove Cope's rule in the evolution of giant flying reptiles

scientific article (publication date: 2 April 2014)

Controlling for the species-area effect supports constrained long-term Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate diversification

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Cranial Anatomy of the Iguanodontoid OrnithopodJinzhousaurus yangifrom the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China

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Cranial anatomy and taxonomy of the erythrosuchid archosauriform 'Vjushkovia triplicostata' Huene, 1960, from the Early Triassic of European Russia

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Cranial anatomy of the small ornithischian dinosaurChangchunsaurus parvusfrom the Quantou Formation (Cretaceous: Aptian–Cenomanian) of Jilin Province, northeastern China

scientific article (publication date: 29 January 2010)

Cranial functional morphology of the pseudosuchian Effigia and implications for its ecological role in the Triassic

Cretaceous tetrapod fossil record sampling and faunal turnover: Implications for biogeography and the rise of modern clades

scholarly article by Roger Benson published in February 2013

Deep-time biodiversity patterns and the dinosaurian fossil record of the Late Cretaceous Western Interior, North America

scientific article published in 2021

Description and phylogenetic placement of a new marine species of phytosaur (Archosauriformes: Phytosauria) from the Late Triassic of Austria

scientific article published in 2019

Dietary constraints of phytosaurian reptiles revealed by dental microwear textural analysis

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Dietary diversity and evolution of the earliest flying vertebrates revealed by dental microwear texture analysis

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Dinosaur morphological diversity and the end-Cretaceous extinction

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Diversity change during the rise of tetrapods and the impact of the 'Carboniferous rainforest collapse'. ⬇️

scientific article published in February 2018

Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at the local-community scale

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

Diversity patterns amongst herbivorous dinosaurs and plants during the Cretaceous: implications for hypotheses of dinosaur/angiosperm co-evolution

scientific article

Do different disparity proxies converge on a common signal? Insights from the cranial morphometrics and evolutionary history of Pterosauria (Diapsida: Archosauria).

scientific article published on 22 February 2012

Early Cenozoic increases in mammal diversity cannot be explained solely by expansion into larger body sizes

scientific article published in 2023

Endocranial anatomy and life habits of the Early Triassic archosauriform Proterosuchus fergusi

scientific article published in 2020

Estimating the effects of sampling biases on pterosaur diversity patterns: implications for hypotheses of bird/pterosaur competitive replacement

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Euparkeriidae

Evidence for heterochrony in the cranial evolution of fossil crocodyliforms

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First record of Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrates from Lithuania: phytosaurs (Diapsida: Archosauriformes) of probable Late Triassic age, with a review of phytosaur biogeography

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Footprints pull origin and diversification of dinosaur stem lineage deep into Early Triassic ⬇️

scientific article published on October 6, 2010

Guttigomphus avilionis gen. et sp. nov., a trirachodontid cynodont from the upper Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa

scientific article published in 2022

Highly incomplete taxa and the phylogenetic relationships of the theropod dinosaurJuravenator starki

scholarly article by Richard J. Butler & Paul Upchurch published 12 March 2007 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

How do geological sampling biases affect studies of morphological evolution in deep time? A case study of pterosaur (Reptilia: Archosauria) disparity ⬇️

scientific article published on August 20, 2011

How should we estimate diversity in the fossil record? Testing richness estimators using sampling-standardised discovery curves

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Increases in sampling support the southern Gondwanan hypothesis for the origin of dinosaurs

scientific article published in 2018

Invertebrate trace fossils from the Alveley Member, Salop Formation (Pennsylvanian, Carboniferous), Shropshire, UK

Lower limits of ornithischian dinosaur body size inferred from a new Upper Jurassic heterodontosaurid from North America

scientific article published on 7 February 2010

Macroevolutionary trends in theropod dinosaur feeding mechanics

Mandasuchus tanyauchen, gen. et sp. nov., a pseudosuchian archosaur from the Manda Beds (?Middle Triassic) of Tanzania

scholarly article by Richard J. Butler et al published 29 November 2017 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Mesozoic marine tetrapod diversity: mass extinctions and temporal heterogeneity in geological megabiases affecting vertebrates

scientific article (publication date: 22 March 2010)

Near-Stasis in the Long-Term Diversification of Mesozoic Tetrapods

scientific article

Neural and endocranial anatomy of Triassic phytosaurian reptiles and convergence with fossil and modern crocodylians

scientific article

New clade of enigmatic early archosaurs yields insights into early pseudosuchian phylogeny and the biogeography of the archosaur radiation

scientific article published in 2014

New heterodontosaurid specimens from the Lower Jurassic of southern Africa and the early ornithischian dinosaur radiation

scientific article (publication date: September 2010)

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

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New material of large-bodied ornithischian dinosaurs, including an iguanodontian ornithopod, from the Quantou Formation (middle Cretaceous: Aptian–Cenomanian) of Jilin Province, northeastern China

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New partial dentaries of amphitheriid mammalian Palaeoxonodon ooliticus from Scotland, and posterior dentary morphology in early cladotherians

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New species of mammaliaform and the cranium of Borealestes (Mammaliformes: Docodonta) from the Middle Jurassic of the British Isles

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New specimen and redescription of Anisodontosaurus greeri (Moenkopi Formation: Middle Triassic) and the spatiotemporal origins of Trilophosauridae

scientific article published on 14 December 2022

Osteology of the archosauromorph Teyujagua paradoxa and the early evolution of the archosauriform skull

scientific article published in 2019

Palaeoenvironmental controls on the distribution of Cretaceous herbivorous dinosaurs

scientific article published in 2008

Palaeoenvironmental controls on the distribution of Cretaceous herbivorous dinosaurs

Pendraig milnerae , a new small-sized coelophysoid theropod from the Late Triassic of Wales ⬇️

journal article from 'Royal Society Open Science' published in 2021

Phylogeny, histology and inferred body size evolution in a new rhabdodontid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Hungary

scientific article published in 2012

Phytosauria

Post-hatchling cranial ontogeny in the Early Triassic diapsid reptile Proterosuchus fergusi

scientific article

Postcranial anatomy of Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China

scientific article (publication date: November 2012)

Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity and air-sacs in the earliest pterosaurs

scientific article

Preface to ‘Late Triassic Terrestrial Biotas and the Rise of Dinosaurs’ Special Issue

Preservational bias controls the fossil record of pterosaurs

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ProrotodactylusandRotodactylustracks: an ichnological record of dinosauromorphs from the Early–Middle Triassic of Poland

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Pterosaur dietary hypotheses: a review of ideas and approaches

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Pterosaur diversity: Untangling the influence of sampling biases, Lagerstätten, and genuine biodiversity signals

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Quantifying the completeness of the bat fossil record

scientific article published in 2019

Radial porosity profiles are a powerful tool for tracing locomotor maturation in developing limb bones

scientific article published in 2023

Radial porosity profiles: a new bone histological method for comparative developmental analysis of diametric limb bone growth

scientific article published on 11 May 2022

Reassessment of the evidence for postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in Triassic archosaurs, and the early evolution of the avian respiratory system

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Reconsidering the status and affinities of the ornithischian dinosaur Tatisaurus oehleri Simmons, 1965

scholarly article by DAVID B. NORMAN et al published August 2007 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Reconstructed evolutionary patterns for crocodile-line archosaurs demonstrate impact of failure to log-transform body size data

Redescription of the archosaur Parringtonia gracilis from the Middle Triassic Manda beds of Tanzania, and the antiquity of Erpetosuchidae

scholarly article by STERLING J. NESBITT & Richard J. Butler published 30 August 2012 in Geological Magazine

Redescription of the archosaur Parringtonia gracilis from the Middle Triassic Manda beds of Tanzania, and the antiquity of Erpetosuchidae – CORRIGENDUM

scholarly article by STERLING J. NESBITT & RICHARD J. BUTLER published 31 January 2013 in Geological Magazine

Redescription of the phytosaursPaleorhinus(‘Francosuchus’)angustifronsandEbrachosuchus neukamifrom Germany, with implications for Late Triassic biochronology

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Relationships of the Indian phytosaurParasuchus hislopiLydekker, 1885

Relative skull size evolution in Mesozoic archosauromorphs: potential drivers and morphological uniqueness of erythrosuchid archosauriforms

scientific article published in 2022

Rise of dinosaurs reveals major body-size transitions are driven by passive processes of trait evolution

scientific article (publication date: 7 June 2012)

Scleromochlus and the early evolution of Pterosauromorpha

Sea level, dinosaur diversity and sampling biases: investigating the 'common cause' hypothesis in the terrestrial realm

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2011)

Skeletal and soft tissue completeness of the acanthodian fossil record

scientific article published in 2022

Skeletal completeness of the non‐avian theropod dinosaur fossil record

scientific article published in 2019

Small-bodied ornithischian dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic of Sichuan, China

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Stratigraphic and geographic distribution of dinosaur tracks in the UK

scientific article published in 2023

Systematics of putative euparkeriids (Diapsida: Archosauriformes) from the Triassic of China

scientific article published in 2014

Taxonomic identification bias does not drive patterns of abundance and diversity in theropod dinosaurs

Taxonomy of the proterosuchid archosauriforms (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the earliest Triassic of South Africa, and implications for the early archosauriform radiation

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Ten more years of discovery: revisiting the quality of the sauropodomorph dinosaur fossil record

scientific article published in 2020

Testing co-evolutionary hypotheses over geological timescales: interactions between Mesozoic non-avian dinosaurs and cycads

scientific article

Testing coevolutionary hypotheses over geological timescales: interactions between Cretaceous dinosaurs and plants

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The Early Evolution of Rhynchosaurs

scientific article published in 2016

The Lower Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur Heterodontosaurus tucki Crompton & Charig, 1962: cranial anatomy, functional morphology, taxonomy, and relationships

scientific article (publication date: 20 May 2011)

The Phylogenetic Position of the Ornithischian DinosaurStenopelix valdensisfrom the Lower Cretaceous of Germany and the Early Fossil Record of Pachycephalosauria

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The Taxonomy and Anatomy of Rauisuchian Archosaurs from the Late Triassic of Germany and Poland

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The anatomy and palaeobiology of the early armoured dinosaur (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Kayenta Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Arizona

The anatomy and phylogenetic position of the erythrosuchid archosauriform from the earliest Middle Triassic of China

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The anatomy of Teleocrater Rhadinus, an early avemetatarsalian from the lower portion of the Lifua Member of the Manda Beds (Middle Triassic)

The anatomy of the basal ornithischian dinosaur Eocursor parvus from the lower Elliot Formation (Late Triassic) of South Africa

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The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

The completeness of the fossil record of plesiosaurs, marine reptiles from the Mesozoic

scientific article published in January 2017

The condition, use and future of the UK's largest accessible dinosaur tracksite at Spyway Quarry, Dorset

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

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The extinction of the dinosaurs

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The first phytosaur (Diapsida, Archosauriformes) from the Late Triassic of the Iberian Peninsula

The last erythrosuchid—a revision of Chalishevia cothurnata from the late Middle Triassic of European Russia

scientific article published in 2019

The monophyly of Euparkeriidae (Reptilia: Archosauriformes) and the origins of Archosauria: a revision ofDorosuchus neoetusfrom the Mid-Triassic of Russia

scholarly article by Roland B. Sookias et al published 13 May 2014 in Palaeontology

The multi-peak adaptive landscape of crocodylomorph body size evolution

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

The origin and early evolution of Sauria: reassessing the permian Saurian fossil record and the timing of the crocodile-lizard divergence

scientific article published in 2014

The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs

scholarly article

The phylogeny of the ornithischian dinosaurs

scientific article (publication date: 2008)

The postcranial osteology and phylogenetic position of the small ornithischian dinosaur Changchunsaurus parvus from the Quantou Formation (Cretaceous: Aptian-Cenomanian) of Jilin Province, north-eastern China

scientific article published on 30 March 2011

The postcranial skeleton of the erythrosuchid archosauriform Garjainia prima from the Early Triassic of European Russia

The postcranial skeleton of the iguanodontian ornithopod Jinzhousaurus yangi from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China

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The rise of the ruling reptiles and ecosystem recovery from the Permo-Triassic mass extinction

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

The roles of herbivory and omnivory in early dinosaur evolution

scholarly article by Paul M. Barrett et al published September 2010 in Royal Society of Edinburgh. Transactions. Earth and Environmental Science

The sail-backed reptile Ctenosauriscus from the latest Early Triassic of Germany and the timing and biogeography of the early archosaur radiation

scientific article published in 2011

The small-bodied ornithischian dinosaurs Micropachycephalosaurus hongtuyanensis and Wannanosaurus yansiensis from the Late Cretaceous of China

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The spatial structure of Phanerozoic marine animal diversity

scientific article

The ‘dermal armour’ of the ornithopod dinosaur Hypsilophodon from the Wealden (Early Cretaceous: Barremian) of the Isle of Wight: a reappraisal

scholarly article by Richard J. Butler & Peter M. Galton published August 2008 in Cretaceous Research

The ‘fabrosaurid’ ornithischian dinosaurs of the Upper Elliot Formation (Lower Jurassic) of South Africa and Lesotho

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Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction as trigger for the Mesozoic radiation of crocodylomorphs

scientific article (publication date: 23 June 2013)

Unappreciated diversification of stem archosaurs during the Middle Triassic predated the dominance of dinosaurs

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Uncovering the diversification history of marine tetrapods: ecology influences the effect of geological sampling biases

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Vertebrate palaeobiodiversity patterns and the impact of sampling bias

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‘Chasmatosaurus ultimus,’ a putative proterosuchid archosauriform from the Middle Triassic, is an indeterminate crown archosaur

‘Francosuchus’trauthiis notPaleorhinus: implications for Late Triassic vertebrate biostratigraphy

‘Proterosuchia’: the origin and early history of Archosauriformes

scholarly article by Martin Ezcurra et al published 2013 in Geological Society Special Publication

‘Rauisuchian’ material from the lower Elliot Formation of South Africa and Lesotho: Implications for Late Triassic biogeography and biostratigraphy

scholarly article

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