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List of works by Sterling J. Nesbitt

A Detailed description of Rugarhynchos sixmilensis, gen. et comb. nov. (Archosauriformes, Proterochampsia), and cranial convergence in snout elongation across stem and crown archosaurs

scientific article published on 2 November 2019

A Dome-Headed Stem Archosaur Exemplifies Convergence among Dinosaurs and Their Distant Relatives

scientific article

A Jurassic ceratosaur from China helps clarify avian digital homologies

scientific article

A Large Alvarezsaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 25 July 2009)

A Late Triassic dinosauromorph assemblage from New Mexico and the rise of dinosaurs

scientific article (publication date: 20 July 2007)

A Short-Snouted, Middle Triassic Phytosaur and its Implications for the Morphological Evolution and Biogeography of Phytosauria

scientific article

A bird-like skull in a Triassic diapsid reptile increases heterogeneity of the morphological and phylogenetic radiation of Diapsida

scientific article published on 11 October 2017

A complete skeleton of a Late Triassic saurischian and the early evolution of dinosaurs

scientific article

A critical re‐evaluation of the Late Triassic dinosaur taxa of North America

scientific article (publication date: 2007)

A giant crocodylomorph from the Upper Triassic of New Mexico ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2005

A large-bodied silesaurid from the Lifua Member of the Manda beds (Middle Triassic) of Tanzania and its implications for body-size evolution in Dinosauromorpha

scholarly article by Paul M. Barrett et al published April 2015 in Gondwana Research

A late-surviving basal theropod dinosaur from the latest Triassic of North America

scientific article

A mid-Cretaceous tyrannosauroid and the origin of North American end-Cretaceous dinosaur assemblages ⬇️

scientific article published on 06 May 2019

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 archosaur from the upper Moenkopi Formation (Middle Triassic) of Arizona and its implications for rauisuchian phylogeny and diversification ⬇️

scholarly article

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

scientific article published in 2013

A new armored archosauriform (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the marine Middle Triassic of China, with implications for the diverse life styles of archosauriforms prior to the diversification of Archosauria.

scientific article

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 rauisuchid (Archosauria, Pseudosuchia) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of New Mexico increases the diversity and temporal range of the clade

scientific article

A new short-faced archosauriform from the Upper Triassic Placerias/Downs' quarry complex, Arizona, USA, expands the morphological diversity of the Triassic archosauriform radiation

scientific article published in 2021

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

A new species of Azendohsaurus (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the Triassic Isalo Group of southwestern Madagascar: cranium and mandible

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A possible new specimen of Ruhuhuaria reiszi from the Manda Beds (?Middle Triassic) of southern Tanzania and its implications for small sauropsids in the Triassic

scholarly article by Alexander B. Bradley & Sterling Nesbitt published 29 November 2017 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

A remarkable group of thick-headed Triassic Period archosauromorphs with a wide, possibly Pangean distribution

A sail-backed suchian from the Heshanggou Formation (Early Triassic: Olenekian) of China

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A small alvarezsaurid from the eastern Gobi Desert offers insight into evolutionary patterns in the Alvarezsauroidea

A small venomous reptile from the Late Triassic (Norian) of the southwestern United States ⬇️

scientific article published in 2024

A taxonomic and biostratigraphic re-evaluation of the Post Quarry vertebrate assemblage from the Cooper Canyon Formation (Dockum Group, Upper Triassic) of southern Garza County, western Texas

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A tiny ornithodiran archosaur from the Triassic of Madagascar and the role of miniaturization in dinosaur and pterosaur ancestry

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

Africa’s oldest dinosaurs reveal early suppression of dinosaur distribution

scientific article published on 31 August 2022

An Otischalkian dinosauromorph assemblage from the Los Esteros Member (Santa Rosa Formation) of New Mexico and its implications for biochronology and lagerpetid body size

An early-diverging crocodylomorph from the early Norian (Late Triassic) of Texas demonstrates a wide distribution of early members across low-latitude Pangea

scientific article published in October 2021

Anatomy and phylogenetic affinities of a new silesaurid assemblage from the Carnian beds of south Brazil

Anatomy, phylogeny and palaeobiology of early archosaurs and their kin

scientific article published in January 2013

Anatomy, phylogeny and palaeobiology of early archosaurs and their kin

Anomalously high variation in postnatal development is ancestral for dinosaurs but lost in birds

scientific article

Archosauromorphs (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Lamy Quarry, Garita Creek Formation (Adamanian, Late Triassic), New Mexico, USA

scientific article published in 2020

Arizonasaurus and its implications for archosaur divergence

scientific article

Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

Bone histology and growth in Stenaulorhynchus stockleyi (Archosauromorpha: Rhynchosauria) from the Middle Triassic of the Ruhuhu Basin of Tanzania

scholarly article by Sarah Werning & Sterling Nesbitt published January 2016 in Comptes Rendus Palevol

Collagen Fibrils in Skin Orient in the Direction of Applied Uniaxial Load in Proportion to Stress while Exhibiting Differential Strains around Hair Follicles

scientific article

Corrigendum: A Short-Snouted, Middle Triassic Phytosaur and its Implications for the Morphological Evolution and Biogeography of Phytosauria

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

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

Deep evolutionary diversification of semicircular canals in archosaurs

scholarly article

Design and analysis of a novel mechanical loading machine for dynamic in vivo axial loading

scientific article published in February 2012

Direct evidence of trophic interactions among apex predators in the Late Triassic of western North America

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Does the maximum body size of theropods increase across the Triassic‐Jurassic boundary? Integrating ontogeny, phylogeny, and body size

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Early Crocodylomorpha

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Early crocodylomorph increases top tier predator diversity during rise of dinosaurs

scientific article

Early ornithischian dinosaurs: the Triassic record

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Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira ⬇️

scientific article

Extreme Modification of the Tetrapod Forelimb in a Triassic Diapsid Reptile

scientific article

Extreme convergence in the body plans of an early suchian (Archosauria) and ornithomimid dinosaurs (Theropoda)

scientific article

Extreme ecosystem instability suppressed tropical dinosaur dominance for 30 million years

scientific article

Femoral specializations to locomotor habits in early archosauriforms

scientific article published on 28 November 2021

Fossil evidence of wing shape in a stem relative of swifts and hummingbirds (Aves, Pan-Apodiformes)

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2013)

Giant taxon-character matrices: the future of morphological systematics

scientific article published in 2017

Hindlimb osteology and distribution of basal dinosauromorphs from the Late Triassic of North America

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Histological analysis of ankylothecodonty in Silesauridae (Archosauria: Dinosauriformes) and its implications for the evolution of dinosaur tooth attachment

Integrating gross morphology and bone histology to assess skeletal maturity in early dinosauromorphs: new insights from (Archosauria: Dinosauromorpha)

article by Christopher T Griffin et al published 2019 in PeerJ

Late Triassic tanystropheids (Reptilia, Archosauromorpha) from northern New Mexico (Petrified Forest Member, Chinle Formation) and the biogeography, functional morphology, and evolution of Tanystropheidae

scholarly article by Adam C. Pritchard et al published 4 March 2015 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

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

Molecular preservation in mammoth bone and variation based on burial environment

scientific article published in 2021

Morphology and diversity of the mandibular symphysis of archosauriforms

New Specimen Sheds Light on the Anatomy and Taxonomy of the Early Late Triassic Dinosauriforms from the Chañares Formation, NW Argentina

scientific article published on 24 August 2019

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

scientific article

New reptile shows dinosaurs and pterosaurs evolved among diverse precursors

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

scientific article published on 14 December 2022

New trilophosaurid species demonstrates a decline in allokotosaur diversity across the Adamanian-Revueltian boundary in the Late Triassic of western North America

scientific article

Non-dinosaurian Dinosauromorpha

Novel hind limb morphology in a kannemeyeriiform dicynodont from the Manda Beds (Songea Group, Ruhuhu Basin) of Tanzania

scholarly article by Christian F. Kammerer et al published 29 November 2017 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Osteology and relationships of Revueltosaurus callenderi (Archosauria: Suchia) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, United States

scientific article published in October 2022

Osteology of the Late Triassic Bipedal Archosaur Poposaurus gracilis (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from Western North America

scientific article published on 08 December 2019

Osteology of the Middle Triassic pseudosuchian archosaurArizonasaurus babbitti

scientific article (publication date: 2005)

Podargiform affinities of the enigmatic Fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus and the early diversification of Strisores ("Caprimulgiformes" + Apodiformes)

scientific article published in 2011

Postcranial Osteology ofAzendohsaurus madagaskarensis(?Middle to Upper Triassic, Isalo Group, Madagascar) and its Systematic Position Among Stem Archosaur Reptiles ⬇️

scientific article published in 2015

Prey choice and cannibalistic behaviour in the theropod Coelophysis

scientific article

Provincialization of terrestrial faunas following the end-Permian mass extinction

scientific article (publication date: 14 May 2013)

Rauisuchia

Reconstructing the archosaur radiation using a Middle Triassic archosauriform tooth assemblage from Tanzania

scientific article published on 05 November 2019

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

Restructuring of Terrestrial Environments in Southern Pangea Following the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction

scholarly article

Rhetoric vs. reality: A commentary on “Bird Origins Anew” by A. Feduccia

scientific article published in 2015

Scleromochlus and the early evolution of Pterosauromorpha

Sternal elements of early dinosaurs fill a critical gap in the evolution of the sternum in Avemetatarsalia (Reptilia: Archosauria)

scientific article published in 2019

Stimulation of osteoblast differentiation with guided ultrasound waves

scientific article

Supplemental Material for 'Postcranial osteology of Azendohsaurus madagaskarensis (?Middle to Upper Triassic, Isalo Group, Madagascar) and its systematic position among stem archosaur reptiles. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no.

Supplemental Material for 'The anatomy and taxonomy of the exquisitely preserved Green River Formation (early Eocene) lithornithids (Aves) and the relationships of Lithornithidae. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 406)'

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 Anatomy and Taxonomy of the Exquisitely Preserved Green River Formation (Early Eocene) Lithornithids (Aves) and the Relationships of Lithornithidae ⬇️

scientific article published in 2016

The Anatomy of Asilisaurus kongwe, a Dinosauriform from the Lifua Member of the Manda Beds (~Middle Triassic) of Africa

scientific article published on 03 December 2019

The Anatomy of Effigia okeeffeae (Archosauria, Suchia), Theropod-like Convergence, and the Distribution of Related Taxa

scientific article published in 2007

The Bipedal Stem Crocodilian Poposaurus gracilis : Inferring Function in Fossils and Innovation in Archosaur Locomotion

scientific article (publication date: April 2011)

The Early Evolution of Archosaurs: Relationships and the Origin of Major Clades ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 29 April 2011)

The First Silesaurid Dinosauriform from the Late Triassic of Morocco ⬇️

scholarly article by Christian F. Kammerer et al published June 2012 in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

The Late Triassic pseudosuchian Revueltosaurus callenderi and its implications for the diversity of early ornithischian dinosaurs

scientific article (publication date: 7 May 2005)

The Osteology and Phylogenetic Position of Luperosuchus fractus (Archosauria: Loricata) from the Latest Middle Triassic or Earliest Late Triassic of Argentina

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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 axial skeleton of Poposaurus langstoni (Pseudosuchia: Poposauroidea) and its implications for accessory intervertebral articulation evolution in pseudosuchian archosaurs

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

The braincase and endocast of Parringtonia gracilis, a Middle Triassic suchian (Archosaur: Pseudosuchia)

The developing bird pelvis passes through ancestral dinosaurian conditions

scientific article published on 27 July 2022

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

scientific article

The earliest equatorial record of frogs from the Late Triassic of Arizona

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

The earliest-diverging avemetatarsalian: a new osteoderm-bearing taxon from the Triassic (?Earliest Late Triassic) of Madagascar and the composition of avemetatarsalian assemblages prior to the radiation of dinosaurs

scientific article published in 2023

The early fossil record of dinosaurs in North America: A new neotheropod from the base of the Upper Triassic Dockum Group of Texas

article published in 2015

The evolution and role of the hyposphene-hypantrum articulation in Archosauria: phylogeny, size and/or mechanics?

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

The evolution of the manus of early theropod dinosaurs is characterized by high inter- and intraspecific variation

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

The femora of Drepanosauromorpha (Reptilia: Diapsida): Implications for the functional evolution of the thigh of Sauropsida

scientific article published on 27 February 2023

The femoral ontogeny and long bone histology of the Middle Triassic (?late Anisian) dinosauriformAsilisaurus kongweand implications for the growth of early dinosaurs

article published in 2016

The first ornithosuchid from Brazil and its macroevolutionary and phylogenetic implications for Late Triassic faunas in Gondwana

scientific article published in 2020

The oldest dinosaur? A Middle Triassic dinosauriform from Tanzania

scientific article (publication date: 23 February 2013)

The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs

scholarly article

The osteoderm microstructure in doswelliids and proterochampsids and its implications for palaeobiology of stem archosaurs

scientific article published in 2017

The osteology and phylogenetic position of the loricatan (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) Heptasuchus clarki, from the ?Mid-Upper Triassic, southeastern Big Horn Mountains, Central Wyoming (USA)

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

The osteology and relationships of Vancleavea campi (Reptilia: Archosauriformes)

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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 theropod furcula

scientific article

Triassic stem caecilian supports dissorophoid origin of living amphibians ⬇️

journal article from 'Nature' published in 2023

Widespread azendohsaurids (Archosauromorpha, Allokotosauria) from the Late Triassic of western USA and India ⬇️

scientific article published on 10 December 2021

‘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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