Spatiotemporal sampling patterns in the 230 million year fossil record of terrestrial crocodylomorphs and their impact on diversity

The mosasaur fossil record through the lens of fossil completeness

(2018) Daniel A. Driscoll et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Tip-dating and homoplasy: reconciling the shallow molecular divergences of modern gharials with their long fossil record

(2018) Michael S. Y. Lee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The effect of body size on skeletal articulation and completeness in Jurassic Ichthyopterygia (Reptilia)

(2017) Susan R. Beardmore   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

Completeness of the eutherian mammal fossil record and implications for reconstructing mammal evolution through the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction

(2017) Thomas W. Davies et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Investigating patterns of crocodyliform cranial disparity through the Mesozoic and Cenozoic

(2017) Eric W Wilberg   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Controlling for the species-area effect supports constrained long-term Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate diversification

(2017) Roger A. Close et al.   Nature Communications

Razanandrongobe sakalavae, a gigantic mesoeucrocodylian from the Middle Jurassic of Madagascar, is the oldest known notosuchian

(2017) Cristiano Dal Sasso et al.   PeerJ

The effect of body size on skeletal articulation and completeness in Jurassic Ichthyopterygia (Reptilia)

(2017) Susan R. Beardmore   PalZ

Rocking Earth's biodiversity cradle: challenges, advances, and prospects for conservation paleontology in the tropics

(2016) Melissa E. Kemp et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Osteology and affinities of Dollo's goniopholidid (Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Early Cretaceous of Bernissart, Belgium

(2016) Jeremy E. Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Preservational bias controls the fossil record of pterosaurs

(2016) Christopher D. Dean et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Assessing the completeness of the fossil record: comparison of different methods applied to parareptilian tetrapods (Vertebrata: Sauropsida)

(2016) Antoine Verrière et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Late Cenozoic onset of the latitudinal diversity gradient of North American mammals

(2016) Jonathan D. Marcot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Environmental drivers of crocodyliform extinction across the Jurassic/Cretaceous transition

(2016) Jonathan P. Tennant et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Near-Stasis in the Long-Term Diversification of Mesozoic Tetrapods

(2016) Roger B. J. Benson et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Postcranial anatomy ofPissarrachampsa sera(Crocodyliformes, Baurusuchidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil: insights on lifestyle and phylogenetic significance

(2016) Pedro L. Godoy et al.   PeerJ

Continental systems tracts of the Brazilian Cretaceous Bauru Basin and their relationship with the tectonic and climatic evolution of South America

(2015) Alessandro Batezelli   BASIN RESEARCH

A revised Eurogondwana model: Late Cretaceous notosuchian crocodyliforms and other vertebrate taxa suggest the retention of episodic faunal links between Europe and Gondwana during most of the Cretaceous

(2015) Márton Rabi et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The fossil record of ichthyosaurs, completeness metrics and sampling biases

(2015) Terri J. Cleary et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

A Miocene hyperdiverse crocodylian community reveals peculiar trophic dynamics in proto-Amazonian mega-wetlands

(2015) R. Salas-Gismondi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

What's in an Outgroup? The Impact of Outgroup Choice on the Phylogenetic Position of Thalattosuchia (Crocodylomorpha) and the Origin of Crocodyliformes

(2015) Eric W. Wilberg   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians

(2015) Philip D. Mannion et al.   Nature Communications

Diversification events and the effects of mass extinctions on Crocodyliformes evolutionary history: Figure 1.

(2015) Mario Bronzati et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Current and historical perspectives on the completeness of the fossil record of pelycosaurian-grade synapsids

(2014) Neil Brocklehurst et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

strap: an R package for plotting phylogenies against stratigraphy and assessing their stratigraphic congruence

(2014) Mark A. Bell et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

A New Notosuchian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil and the Phylogeny of Advanced Notosuchians

(2014) Diego Pol et al.   PLoS One

An Expanded Combined Evidence Approach to the Gavialis Problem Using Geometric Morphometric Data from Crocodylian Braincases and Eustachian Systems

(2014) Maria Eugenia Leone Gold et al.   PLoS One

Three crocodilian genomes reveal ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs

(2014) R. E. Green et al.   SCIENCE

Sea surface temperature contributes to marine crocodylomorph evolution

(2014) Jeremy E. Martin et al.   Nature Communications

The quality of the fossil record of anomodonts (Synapsida, Therapsida)

(2013) Marcus Walther et al.   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

Fossil crocodylid remains from Scontrone (Tortonian, Southern Italy) and the late Neogene Mediterranean biogeography of crocodylians

(2013) Massimo Delfino et al.   GEOBIOS

A new neosuchian with Asian affinities from the Jurassic of northeastern Brazil

(2013) Felipe C. Montefeltro et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Spatial Bias in the Marine Fossil Record

(2013) Daril A. Vilhena et al.   PLoS One

Crocodylian diversity peak and extinction in the late Cenozoic of the northern Neotropics

(2013) T. M. Scheyer et al.   Nature Communications

A giant crocodile from the Plio-Pleistocene of Kenya, the phylogenetic relationships of Neogene African crocodylines, and the antiquity ofCrocodylusin Africa

(2012) Christopher A. Brochu et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Postcranial anatomy ofSebecus icaeorhinus(Crocodyliformes, Sebecidae) from the Eocene of Patagonia

(2012) Diego Pol et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Death, decay and disarticulation: Modelling the skeletal taphonomy of marine reptiles demonstrated using Serpianosaurus (Reptilia; Sauropterygia)

(2012) S.R. Beardmore et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Evidence for taphonomic size bias in the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian, Alberta), a model Mesozoic terrestrial alluvial‐paralic system

(2012) Caleb Marshall Brown et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Cretaceous tetrapod fossil record sampling and faunal turnover: Implications for biogeography and the rise of modern clades

(2012) Roger B.J. Benson et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Completeness of the Fossil Record of Mesozoic Birds: Implications for Early Avian Evolution

(2012) Neil Brocklehurst et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic relationships ofNecrosuchus ionensisSimpson, 1937 and the early history of caimanines

(2012) CHRISTOPHER A. BROCHU   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Float or sink: modelling the taphonomic pathway of marine crocodiles (Mesoeucrocodylia, Thalattosuchia) during the death–burial interval

(2012) Susan R. Beardmore et al.   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

A TIME-CALIBRATED SPECIES TREE OF CROCODYLIA REVEALS A RECENT RADIATION OF THE TRUE CROCODILES

(2011) Jamie R. Oaks   EVOLUTION

A temperate palaeodiversity peak in Mesozoic dinosaurs and evidence for Late Cretaceous geographical partitioning

(2011) Philip D. Mannion et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A reappraisal of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: evidence for their Gondwanan affinities

(2011) Federico L. Agnolin et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Choristoderes and the freshwater assemblages of Laurasia

(2010) R. Matsumoto et al.   JOURNAL OF IBERIAN GEOLOGY

The evolution of mammal-like crocodyliforms in the Cretaceous Period of Gondwana

(2010) Patrick M. O’Connor et al.   NATURE

Climate's role in the distribution of the Cretaceous terrestrial Crocodyliformes throughout Gondwana

(2010) Ismar de Souza Carvalho et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Geographical, environmental and intrinsic biotic controls on Phanerozoic marine diversification

(2010) JOHN ALROY   PALAEONTOLOGY

Completeness metrics and the quality of the sauropodomorph fossil record through geological and historical time

(2010) Philip D. Mannion et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

The shape of pterosaur evolution: evidence from the fossil record

(2009) G. J. DYKE et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Recent advances in the comprehension of the biogeography of Cretaceous European eusuchians

(2009) Jeremy E. Martin et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Cretaceous Crocodyliforms from the Sahara

(2009) Paul Sereno et al.   ZooKeys

Gondwana to Asia: Plate tectonics, paleogeography and the biological connectivity of the Indian sub-continent from the Middle Jurassic through latest Eocene (166–35 Ma)

(2008) Jason R. Ali et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The oldest African crocodylian: phylogeny, paleobiogeography, and differential survivorship of marine reptiles through the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

(2008) Stéphane Jouve et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics

(2008) James C. Zachos et al.   NATURE

How to find a dinosaur, and the role of synonymy in biodiversity studies

(2008) Michael J. Benton   PALEOBIOLOGY