Note:This study examines the phylogeny and ontogeny of limb evolution in the Neodiapsida (Reptilia). Patterns and sequences of limb ossification are described from the ontogenies of fossil and extant, aquatic and terrestrial, neodiapsids. Taxa described in detail include the extant squamate Varanus timorensis, the fossil neodiapsids Hovasaurus boulei. Thadeosaurus colcanapi. and Claudiosaurus germaini, fossil aquatic squamates from the Aigialosauridae and Mosasauridae, and fossil aquatic taxa belonging to the Sauropterygia (Cryptocleidus eurymerus) and Ichthyosauria (Stenopterygius sp.). Phylogenetic analysis of relationships among diapsids, and in particular the neodiapsids listed above, was conducted using cladistic methods and the comput...
In this thesis, I investigate the phylogeny and evolution of Lerista, a clade of more than 75 specie...
Phytosaurs are a group of carnivorous, semi-aquatic archosaurian reptiles that attained an almost gl...
Bibliography: leaves 342-359.How and why did limblessness evolve in certain skinks? These questions ...
Abstract Background The Australian scincid clade Lerista provides perhaps the best available model f...
Journal ArticleThe study of morphological rules, or trends, offered classical biologists the opportu...
Convergent evolution of phenotypes is considered evidence that evolution is deterministic. Establis...
Convergent evolution of phenotypes is considered evidence that evolution is deterministic. Establish...
textBecause the ancestry of extant amphibians remains highly controversial, under traditional perspe...
This study considers the ontogeny and phylogeny of branchiosaurids and amphibamids, small dissoropho...
<p>The largest phylogenetic analysis of ichthyosaurs to date is presented, with 114 ingroup taxa cod...
BACKGROUND: During their evolution in the Late Cretaceous, mosasauroids attained a worldwide distrib...
The ontogeny of extant amphibians often is used as a model for that of extinct early tetrapods, desp...
Tetrapods came out of water in great part thanks to the evolution of fins into limbs. This transitio...
Background: During their evolution in the Late Cretaceous, mosasauroids attained a worldwide distrib...
The viviparous sea snakes (Hydrophiinae) comprise ∼90% of living marine reptiles and display many ph...
In this thesis, I investigate the phylogeny and evolution of Lerista, a clade of more than 75 specie...
Phytosaurs are a group of carnivorous, semi-aquatic archosaurian reptiles that attained an almost gl...
Bibliography: leaves 342-359.How and why did limblessness evolve in certain skinks? These questions ...
Abstract Background The Australian scincid clade Lerista provides perhaps the best available model f...
Journal ArticleThe study of morphological rules, or trends, offered classical biologists the opportu...
Convergent evolution of phenotypes is considered evidence that evolution is deterministic. Establis...
Convergent evolution of phenotypes is considered evidence that evolution is deterministic. Establish...
textBecause the ancestry of extant amphibians remains highly controversial, under traditional perspe...
This study considers the ontogeny and phylogeny of branchiosaurids and amphibamids, small dissoropho...
<p>The largest phylogenetic analysis of ichthyosaurs to date is presented, with 114 ingroup taxa cod...
BACKGROUND: During their evolution in the Late Cretaceous, mosasauroids attained a worldwide distrib...
The ontogeny of extant amphibians often is used as a model for that of extinct early tetrapods, desp...
Tetrapods came out of water in great part thanks to the evolution of fins into limbs. This transitio...
Background: During their evolution in the Late Cretaceous, mosasauroids attained a worldwide distrib...
The viviparous sea snakes (Hydrophiinae) comprise ∼90% of living marine reptiles and display many ph...
In this thesis, I investigate the phylogeny and evolution of Lerista, a clade of more than 75 specie...
Phytosaurs are a group of carnivorous, semi-aquatic archosaurian reptiles that attained an almost gl...
Bibliography: leaves 342-359.How and why did limblessness evolve in certain skinks? These questions ...