Fabien Knoll

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November 2, 2022

Cranial osteology, taxonomic reassessment, and phylogenetic relationships of the Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) turtle Trinitichelys hiatti (Paracryptodira)

Yann Rollot, Serjoscha W. Evers, Stephanie E. Pierce, Walter G. Joyce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14138 PubMed 36345484

September 23, 2022

Interelemental osteohistological variation in Massospondylus carinatus and its implications for locomotion

Kimberley EJ Chapelle, Paul M. Barrett, Jonah N. Choiniere, Jennifer Botha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13918 PubMed 36172498

July 26, 2022

A new istiodactylid pterosaur, Lingyuanopterus camposi gen. et sp. nov., from the Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China

Yizhi Xu, Shunxing Jiang, Xiaolin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13819 PubMed 35910775

January 25, 2022

A newly recognized theropod assemblage from the Lewisville Formation (Woodbine Group; Cenomanian) and its implications for understanding Late Cretaceous Appalachian terrestrial ecosystems

Christopher R. Noto, Domenic C. D’Amore, Stephanie K. Drumheller, Thomas L. Adams

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12782 PubMed 35127286

December 9, 2021

The phylogenetic nomenclature of ornithischian dinosaurs

Daniel Madzia, Victoria M. Arbour, Clint A. Boyd, Andrew A. Farke, Penélope Cruzado-Caballero, David C. Evans

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12362 PubMed 34966571

November 15, 2021

Heteropelta boboi n. gen., n. sp. an armored archosauriform (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Middle Triassic of Italy

Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12468 PubMed 34820195

October 29, 2021

A new specimen of Sinopterus dongi (Pterosauria, Tapejaridae) from the Jiufotang Formation (Early Cretaceous, China)

Caizhi Shen, Rodrigo V. Pêgas, Chunling Gao, Martin Kundrát, Lijun Zhang, Xuefang Wei, Xuanyu Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12360 PubMed 34760376

September 6, 2021

Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem

Jonathan P. Rio, Philip D. Mannion

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12094 PubMed 34567843

July 22, 2021

Variation in the skulls of Elgaria and Gerrhonotus (Anguidae, Gerrhonotinae) and implications for phylogenetics and fossil identification

David T. Ledesma, Simon G. Scarpetta, Christopher J. Bell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11602 PubMed 34327052

June 23, 2021

Rare evidence for ‘gnawing-like’ behavior in a small-bodied theropod dinosaur

Caleb M. Brown, Darren H. Tanke, David W.E. Hone

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11557 PubMed 34221716

June 7, 2021

A new giant sauropod, Australotitan cooperensis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia

Scott A. Hocknull, Melville Wilkinson, Rochelle A. Lawrence, Vladislav Konstantinov, Stuart Mackenzie, Robyn Mackenzie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11317 PubMed 34164230

May 20, 2021

Osteology, relationships and functional morphology of Weigeltisaurus jaekeli (Diapsida, Weigeltisauridae) based on a complete skeleton from the Upper Permian Kupferschiefer of Germany

Adam C. Pritchard, Hans-Dieter Sues, Diane Scott, Robert R. Reisz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11413 PubMed 34055483

May 4, 2021

Braincase anatomy of the Paleocene crocodyliform Rhabdognathus revealed through high resolution computed tomography

Arthur Erb, Alan H. Turner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11253 PubMed 33986990

April 2, 2021

A new brachylophosaurin (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico

Andrew T. McDonald, Douglas G. Wolfe, Elizabeth A. Freedman Fowler, Terry A. Gates

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11084 PubMed 33859873

March 31, 2021

Sinomacrops bondei, a new anurognathid pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and comments on the group

Xuefang Wei, Rodrigo Vargas Pêgas, Caizhi Shen, Yanfang Guo, Waisum Ma, Deyu Sun, Xuanyu Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11161 PubMed 33850665

February 11, 2021

A new elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the non-marine to paralic Dinosaur Park Formation of southern Alberta, Canada

James A. Campbell, Mark T. Mitchell, Michael J. Ryan, Jason S. Anderson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10720 PubMed 33614274

January 25, 2021

Description and rediagnosis of the crested hadrosaurid (Ornithopoda) dinosaur Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus on the basis of new cranial remains

Terry A. Gates, David C. Evans, Joseph J.W. Sertich

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10669 PubMed 33552721

January 21, 2021

A review of the carotid artery and facial nerve canal systems in extant turtles

Yann Rollot, Serjoscha W. Evers, Walter G. Joyce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10475 PubMed 33552706

January 15, 2021

A new caimanine alligatorid from the Middle Eocene of Southwest Texas and implications for spatial and temporal shifts in Paleogene crocodyliform diversity

Michelle R. Stocker, Christopher A. Brochu, E. Christopher Kirk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10665 PubMed 33520458

December 21, 2020

Australia’s prehistoric ‘swamp king’: revision of the Plio-Pleistocene crocodylian genus Pallimnarchus de Vis, 1886

Jorgo Ristevski, Adam M. Yates, Gilbert J. Price, Ralph E. Molnar, Vera Weisbecker, Steven W. Salisbury

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10466 PubMed 33391869

October 27, 2020

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

Sterling J. Nesbitt, John M. Zawiskie, Robert M. Dawley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10101 PubMed 33194383

September 18, 2020

Sampling impacts the assessment of tooth growth and replacement rates in archosaurs: implications for paleontological studies

Jens C.D. Kosch, Lindsay E. Zanno

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9918 PubMed 32999766

September 8, 2020

Development of limb bone laminarity in the homing pigeon (Columba livia)

Rylee S. McGuire, Raffi Ourfalian, Kelly Ezell, Andrew H. Lee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9878 PubMed 33194361

August 24, 2020

Additional records and stratigraphic distribution of the middle Eocene carettochelyid turtle Anosteira pulchra from the Uinta Formation of Utah, North America

Brent Adrian, Patricia A. Holroyd, J. Howard Hutchison, KE Beth Townsend

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9775 PubMed 32904103

July 3, 2020

Preservation of latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)—Paleocene frogs (Eorubeta nevadensis) of the Sheep Pass Formation of east-central Nevada and implications for paleogeography of the Nevadaplano

Joshua W. Bonde, Peter A. Druschke, Richard P. Hilton, Amy C. Henrici, Stephen M. Rowland

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9455 PubMed 32704447

June 30, 2020

Cranial osteology of the Early Cretaceous turtle Pleurosternon bullockii (Paracryptodira: Pleurosternidae)

Serjoscha W. Evers, Yann Rollot, Walter G. Joyce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9454 PubMed 32655997

June 30, 2020

Bite force data suggests relationship between acrodont tooth implantation and strong bite force

Kelsey M. Jenkins, Jack O. Shaw

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9468 PubMed 32656000

June 5, 2020

Transitional evolutionary forms in chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaurs: evidence from the Campanian of New Mexico

Denver W. Fowler, Elizabeth A. Freedman Fowler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9251 PubMed 32547873

May 28, 2020

The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: 5. Caodeyao liuyufengi gen. et sp. nov., a new peculiar therocephalian

Jun Liu, Fernando Abdala

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9160 PubMed 32523808

May 13, 2020

Thecodont tooth attachment and replacement in bolosaurid parareptiles

Adam J. Snyder, Aaron R.H. LeBlanc, Chen Jun, Joseph J. Bevitt, Robert R. Reisz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9168 PubMed 32440377

March 6, 2020

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

Juan C. Cisneros, Kenneth Angielczyk, Christian F. Kammerer, Roger M.H. Smith, Jörg Fröbisch, Claudia A. Marsicano, Martha Richter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8719 PubMed 32185112

February 25, 2020

The body plan of Halszkaraptor escuilliei (Dinosauria, Theropoda) is not a transitional form along the evolution of dromaeosaurid hypercarnivory

Andrea Cau

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8672 PubMed 32140312

January 6, 2020

The first pterosaur basihyal, shedding light on the evolution and function of pterosaur hyoid apparatuses

Shunxing Jiang, Zhiheng Li, Xin Cheng, Xiaolin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8292 PubMed 31934505

September 27, 2019

Dinosaur paleohistology: review, trends and new avenues of investigation

Alida M. Bailleul, Jingmai O’Connor, Mary H. Schweitzer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7764 PubMed 31579624

August 14, 2019

Ontogenetic braincase development in Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) using micro-computed tomography

Claire M. Bullar, Qi Zhao, Michael J. Benton, Michael J. Ryan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7217 PubMed 31428535

August 5, 2019

Ngwevu intloko: a new early sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa and comments on cranial ontogeny in Massospondylus carinatus

Kimberley E.J. Chapelle, Paul M. Barrett, Jennifer Botha, Jonah N. Choiniere

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7240 PubMed 31403001

May 22, 2019

The braincase of Mesosuchus browni (Reptilia, Archosauromorpha) with information on the inner ear and description of a pneumatic sinus

Gabriela Sobral, Johannes Müller

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6798 PubMed 31198620

December 20, 2018

Fuyuanichthys wangi gen. et sp. nov. from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of China highlights the early diversification of ginglymodian fishes

Guang-Hui Xu, Xin-Ying Ma, Yi Ren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6054 PubMed 30595977

November 26, 2018

Braincase and endocranial anatomy of two thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs and their relevance in understanding their adaptations to the marine environment

Yanina Herrera, Juan Martín Leardi, Marta S. Fernández

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5686 PubMed 30515353

November 13, 2018

The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae

Jessie Atterholt, J. Howard Hutchison, Jingmai K. O’Connor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5910 PubMed 30479894

November 2, 2018

Elaborate plumage patterning in a Cretaceous bird

Quanguo Li, Julia A. Clarke, Ke-Qin Gao, Jennifer A. Peteya, Matthew D. Shawkey

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5831 PubMed 30405969

August 22, 2018

Paleoneuroanatomy of the aetosaur Neoaetosauroides engaeus (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) and its paleobiological implications among archosauriforms

M. Belen von Baczko, Jeremías R.A. Taborda, Julia Brenda Desojo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5456 PubMed 30155359

July 19, 2018

A new southern Laramidian ankylosaurid, Akainacephalus johnsoni gen. et sp. nov., from the upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah, USA

Jelle P. Wiersma, Randall B. Irmis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5016 PubMed 30065856

July 6, 2018

The cranial endocast of the Upper Devonian dipnoan ‘Chirodipterus’ australis

Struan A.C. Henderson, Tom J. Challands

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5148 PubMed 30002977

June 27, 2018

A new species of the deep-bodied actinopterygian Dapedium from the Middle Jurassic (Aalenian) of southwestern Germany

Erin E. Maxwell, Adriana López-Arbarello

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5033 PubMed 29967726

January 12, 2018

A revised cranial description of Massospondylus carinatus Owen (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) based on computed tomographic scans and a review of cranial characters for basal Sauropodomorpha

Kimberley E.J. Chapelle, Jonah N. Choiniere

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4224 PubMed 29340238

January 8, 2018

A new species of Cretalamna sensu stricto (Lamniformes, Otodontidae) from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian-Campanian) of Alabama, USA

Jun A. Ebersole, Dana J. Ehret

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4229 PubMed 29333348

December 11, 2017

Incremental growth of therizinosaurian dental tissues: implications for dietary transitions in Theropoda

Khai Button, Hailu You, James I. Kirkland, Lindsay Zanno

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4129 PubMed 29250467

August 10, 2017

Synchrotron scanning reveals the palaeoneurology of the head-butting Moschops capensis (Therapsida, Dinocephalia)

Julien Benoit, Paul R. Manger, Luke Norton, Vincent Fernandez, Bruce S. Rubidge

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3496 PubMed 28828230

May 9, 2017

Direct evidence of megamammal-carnivore interaction decoded from bone marks in historical fossil collections from the Pampean region

Karina Vanesa Chichkoyan, Borja Figueirido, Margarita Belinchón, José Luis Lanata, Anne-Marie Moigne, Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3117 PubMed 28503369

April 25, 2017

Virtual reconstruction of the endocranial anatomy of the early Jurassic marine crocodylomorph Pelagosaurus typus (Thalattosuchia)

Stephanie E. Pierce, Megan Williams, Roger B.J. Benson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3225 PubMed 28462034

October 20, 2016

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

Blair W. McPhee, Paul Upchurch, Philip D. Mannion, Corwin Sullivan, Richard J. Butler, Paul M. Barrett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2578 PubMed 27781168

October 20, 2016

The cranial endocast of Dipnorhynchus sussmilchi (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi) and the interrelationships of stem-group lungfishes

Alice M. Clement, Tom J. Challands, John A. Long, Per E. Ahlberg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2539 PubMed 27781157