Evolutionary origin of the turtle skull

A Middle Triassic stem-turtle and the evolution of the turtle body plan

(2015) Rainer R. Schoch et al.   NATURE

Toward consilience in reptile phylogeny: miRNAs support an archosaur, not lepidosaur, affinity for turtles

(2014) Daniel J. Field et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Origin of the unique ventilatory apparatus of turtles

(2014) Tyler R. Lyson et al.   Nature Communications

Evolutionary Origin of the Turtle Shell

(2013) Tyler R. Lyson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Revisiting the past in view of the future

(2013) Margherita Raineri   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Turtle origins: insights from phylogenetic retrofitting and molecular scaffolds

(2013) M. S. Y. Lee   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The draft genomes of soft-shell turtle and green sea turtle yield insights into the development and evolution of the turtle-specific body plan

(2013) Zhuo Wang et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Biostratigraphic correlation in the Karoo: The case of the Middle Permian parareptile Eunotosaurus

(2013) Mike Day et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Cranial morphology of the Early Permian mesosaurid Mesosaurus tenuidens and the evolution of the lower temporal fenestration reassessed

(2012) Graciela Piñeiro et al.   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

Temporal Bone Arrangements in Turtles: An Overview

(2012) INGMAR WERNEBURG   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Birds have paedomorphic dinosaur skulls

(2012) Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar et al.   NATURE

Finding the frame shift: digit loss, developmental variability, and the origin of the avian hand

(2011) Gabe S. Bever et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

A new Early Permian reptile and its significance in early diapsid evolution

(2011) R. R. Reisz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Transitional fossils and the origin of turtles

(2010) T. R. Lyson et al.   Biology Letters

The enigmatic diapsid Acerosodontosaurus piveteaui (Reptilia: Neodiapsida) from the Upper Permian of Madagascar and the paraphyly of “younginiform” reptiles

(2009) Constanze Bickelmann et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis

(2008) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China

(2008) Chun Li et al.   NATURE