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A Pliocene–Pleistocene continental biota from Venezuela

scientific article published on 23 April 2021

A forged ‘chimera’ including the second specimen of the protostegid sea turtle Santanachelys gaffneyi and shell parts of the pleurodire Araripemys from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Group of Brazil

scientific article published in 2023

A historical vertebrate collection from the Middle Miocene of the Peruvian Amazon

A new phylogenetic hypothesis of Tanystropheidae (Diapsida, Archosauromorpha) and other “protorosaurs”, and its implications for the early evolution of stem archosaurs ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

A new, exceptionally preserved juvenile specimen of Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi (Diapsida) and implications for Mesozoic marine diapsid phylogeny

scientific article

A palaeoequatorial ornithischian and new constraints on early dinosaur diversification

scientific article

Antiquity and fundamental processes of the antler cycle in Cervidae (Mammalia)

preprint

Antiquity and fundamental processes of the antler cycle in Cervidae (Mammalia)

scholarly article

Basal Reptilians, Marine Diapsids, and Turtles: The Flowering of Reptile Diversity

academic chapter

Bizarre dermal armour suggests the first African ankylosaur

scientific article published on 23 September 2021

Bone histology of phytosaur, aetosaur, and other archosauriform osteoderms (Eureptilia, Archosauromorpha).

scientific article

Caught in the act: the first record of copulating fossil vertebrates ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 23 October 2012)

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

scientific article published on 25 March 2020

Comparative bone histology of two thalattosaurians (Diapsida: Thalattosauria): Askeptosaurus italicus from the Alpine Triassic (Middle Triassic) and a Thalattosauroidea indet. from the Carnian of Oregon (Late Triassic)

scientific article published in 2023

Cranial anatomy of <i>Besanosaurus leptorhynchus</i> Dal Sasso & Pinna, 1996 (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic Besano Formation of Monte San Giorgio, Italy/Switzerland: taxonomic and palaeobiological implications

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

Editorial: <i>Fossil Record</i> says goodbye to Copernicus – collaboration with Copernicus, a decisive phase in the history of <i>Fossil Record</i>

scientific article published on 17 December 2021

Evolution of bone compactness in extant and extinct moles (Talpidae): exploring humeral microstructure in small fossorial mammals ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 26 February 2013)

Evolutionary Origin of the Turtle Shell ⬇️

scientific article published on May 30, 2013

Evolutionary Patterns of Bone Histology and Bone Compactness in Xenarthran Mammal Long Bones ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Fish otoliths from the middle Miocene Pebas Formation of the Peruvian Amazon ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Giant extinct caiman breaks constraint on the axial skeleton of extant crocodylians

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Growth and life history of Middle Miocene deer (Mammalia, Cervidae) based on bone histology

scientific article published in 2015

Growth patterns and life-history strategies in Placodontia (Diapsida: Sauropterygia)

scientific article

Homeotic effects, somitogenesis and the evolution of vertebral numbers in recent and fossil amniotes

scientific article (publication date: 2 February 2010)

Mammalian bone palaeohistology: a survey and new data with emphasis on island forms

scientific article

Microanatomy of the stem-turtle Pappochelys rosinae indicates a predominantly fossorial mode of life and clarifies early steps in the evolution of the shell

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Novel data on aetosaur (Archosauria, Pseudosuchia) osteoderm microanatomy and histology: palaeobiological implications

scientific article published in 2018

Origin of the unique ventilatory apparatus of turtles

scientific article

Osteoderm histology of Proterochampsia and Doswelliidae (Reptilia: Archosauriformes) and their evolutionary and paleobiological implications

scientific article published on 02 February 2015

Osteoderm microstructure of “rauisuchian” archosaurs from South America

scientific article published in July 2013

Osteoderm microstructure of “rauisuchian” archosaurs from South America

Palaeobiological inferences of “rauisuchians” Fasolasuchus tenax (Los Colorados Fm., Argentina) and Prestosuchus chiniquensis (Santa Maria Super sequence, Brazil) from the Middle–Upper Triassic of South America based on microstructural analyses

scientific article published on 31 July 2023

Palaeohistology and external microanatomy of rauisuchian osteoderms (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia)

scientific article published on 29 September 2011

Palaeohistology and external microanatomy of rauisuchian osteoderms (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia)

Synchrotron microtomography of a Nothosaurus marchicus skull informs on nothosaurian physiology and neurosensory adaptations in early Sauropterygia.

scientific article

The Allemann collection from the Santa Cruz Formation (late early Miocene), Argentina, in Zurich, Switzerland

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

The anatomy, paleobiology, and evolutionary relationships of the largest extinct side-necked turtle ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

The cranial morphology of Tanystropheus hydroides (Tanystropheidae, Archosauromorpha) as revealed by synchrotron microtomography

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

The evolution of dermal shield vascularization in Testudinata and Pseudosuchia: phylogenetic constraints versus ecophysiological adaptations

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

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 placodonts (Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Canales de Molina (Central Spain), and an update on the knowledge about this clade in the Iberian record

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

Trophic interactions between larger crocodylians and giant tortoises on Aldabra Atoll, Western Indian Ocean, during the Late Pleistocene

scientific article published on 24 January 2018

Turtle shell bone and osteoderm histology of Mesozoic and Cenozoic stem-trionychian Adocidae and Nanhsiungchelyidae (Cryptodira: Adocusia) from Central Asia, Mongolia, and North America

scientific article published on 03 February 2017

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