New reptile shows dinosaurs and pterosaurs evolved among diverse precursors

A new silesaurid from Carnian beds of Brazil fills a gap in the radiation of avian line archosaurs

(2023) Rodrigo T. Müller et al.   Scientific Reports

A re-assessment of the osteology and phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic, large-headed reptile Sphodrosaurus pennsylvanicus (Late Triassic, Pennsylvania, USA) indicates archosauriform affinities

(2022) Martín D. Ezcurra et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Reassessment of Faxinalipterus minimus, a purported Triassic pterosaur from southern Brazil with the description of a new taxon

(2022) Alexander W.A. Kellner et al.   PeerJ

The dawn of the flying reptiles: first Triassic record in the southern hemisphere

(2022) Ricardo N. Martínez et al.   Papers in Palaeontology

Redescription, taxonomic revaluation and phylogenetic affinities of Proterochampsa nodosa (Archosauriformes: Proterochampsidae) from the early Late Triassic of the Candelaria Sequence (Santa Maria Supersequence)

(2022) Daniel De Simão-Oliveira et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Scleromochlus and the early evolution of Pterosauromorpha

(2022) Davide Foffa et al.   NATURE

Africa’s oldest dinosaurs reveal early suppression of dinosaur distribution

(2022) Christopher T. Griffin et al.   NATURE

Pachyosteosclerosis, rhamphotheca and enhanced sensory capabilities of the premaxillae of Hyperodapedon (Archosauromorpha, Rhynchosauria): implications for foraging at the sediment–water interface

(2022) Debarati Mukherjee et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Macroevolutionary dynamics of dentition in Mesozoic birds reveal no long-term selection towards tooth loss

(2021) Neil Brocklehurst et al.   iScience

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

(2021) Jordan Bestwick et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

The origin of Pterosaurs

(2021) Matthew G. Baron   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The first edentulous ceratosaur from South America

(2021) Geovane Alves de Souza et al.   Scientific Reports

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

(2020) Christian F. Kammerer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Shifting spaces: Which disparity or dissimilarity measurement best summarize occupancy in multidimensional spaces?

(2020) Thomas Guillerme et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria

(2020) Martín D. Ezcurra et al.   NATURE

Biases with the Generalized Euclidean Distance measure in disparity analyses with high levels of missing data

(2019) Oscar E. R. Lehmann et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

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

(2019) Martín D. Ezcurra et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Non-dinosaurian dinosauromorphs from the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic) of the Eagle Basin, northern Colorado: Dromomeron romeri (Lagerpetidae) and a new taxon, Kwanasaurus williamparkeri (Silesauridae)

(2019) Jeffrey W. Martz et al.   PeerJ

Commentary: Defining Raptors and Birds of Prey

(2019) Christopher J. W. McClure et al.   JOURNAL OF RAPTOR RESEARCH

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

(2019) Sterling J. Nesbitt et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

U-Pb age constraints on dinosaur rise from south Brazil

(2018) Max C. Langer et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The rise of the ruling reptiles and ecosystem recovery from the Permo-Triassic mass extinction

(2018) Martín D. Ezcurra et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7

(2018) Andrew Rambaut et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ingroup relationships of Lagerpetidae (Avemetatarsalia: Dinosauromorpha): a further phylogenetic investigation on the understanding of dinosaur relatives

(2018) RODRIGO TEMP MÜLLER et al.   ZOOTAXA

dispRity : A modular R package for measuring disparity

(2018) Thomas Guillerme   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The evolutionary relationship between beak shape, mechanical advantage, and feeding ecology in modern birds

(2018) Guillermo Navalón et al.   EVOLUTION

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

(2017) Sterling J. Nesbitt et al.   NATURE

Mass extinctions drove increased global faunal cosmopolitanism on the supercontinent Pangaea

(2017) David J. Button et al.   Nature Communications

A Norian Lagerpetid Dinosauromorph from the Quebrada Del Barro Formation, Northwestern Argentina

(2016) Ricardo N. Martínez et al.   AMEGHINIANA

Estimating morphological diversity and tempo with discrete character-taxon matrices: implementation, challenges, progress, and future directions

(2016) Graeme T. Lloyd   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

TNT version 1.5, including a full implementation of phylogenetic morphometrics

(2016) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

A Unique Late Triassic Dinosauromorph Assemblage Reveals Dinosaur Ancestral Anatomy and Diet

(2016) Sergio Furtado Cabreira et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The shapes of bird beaks are highly controlled by nondietary factors

(2016) Jen A. Bright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The phylogenetic relationships of basal archosauromorphs, with an emphasis on the systematics of proterosuchian archosauriforms

(2016) Martín D. Ezcurra   PeerJ

The Origin and Early Evolution of Sauria: Reassessing the Permian Saurian Fossil Record and the Timing of the Crocodile-Lizard Divergence

(2014) Martín D. Ezcurra et al.   PLoS One

The Early Evolutionary History and Adaptive Radiation of the Pterosauria

(2013) Brian ANDRES   ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA-ENGLISH EDITION

Edentulism, beaks, and biomechanical innovations in the evolution of theropod dinosaurs

(2013) S. Lautenschlager et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A stochastic rate-calibrated method for time-scaling phylogenies of fossil taxa

(2013) David W. Bapst   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Dinosaur morphological diversity and the end-Cretaceous extinction

(2012) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2011) Sterling J. Nesbitt   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Saltopus, a dinosauriform from the Upper Triassic of Scotland

(2011) Michael J. Benton et al.   Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Evolution of morphological disparity in pterosaurs

(2011) Katherine C. Prentice et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira

(2010) Sterling J. Nesbitt et al.   NATURE

Biogeography of Triassic tetrapods: evidence for provincialism and driven sympatric cladogenesis in the early evolution of modern tetrapod lineages

(2010) M. D. Ezcurra   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Facial Integument of Centrosaurine Ceratopsids: Morphological and Histological Correlates of Novel Skin Structures

(2009) Tobin L. Hieronymus et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

The origin and early evolution of dinosaurs

(2009) Max C. Langer et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

(2009) Sterling J. Nesbitt et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

The first 50 Myr of dinosaur evolution: macroevolutionary pattern and morphological disparity

(2008) S. L. Brusatte et al.   Biology Letters

Superiority, Competition, and Opportunism in the Evolutionary Radiation of Dinosaurs

(2008) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   SCIENCE