Osteology of the Middle Triassic stem-turtle Pappochelys rosinae and the early evolution of the turtle skeleton

Fossorial Origin of the Turtle Shell

(2016) Tyler R. Lyson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A Middle Triassic palaeontological gold mine: The vertebrate deposits of Vellberg (Germany)

(2016) Rainer R. Schoch et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Development of the turtle plastron, the order-defining skeletal structure

(2016) Ritva Rice et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Revision of the Triassic European turtlesProterochersisandMurrhardtia(Reptilia, Testudinata, Proterochersidae), with the description of new taxa from Poland and Germany

(2016) Tomasz Szczygielski et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A redescription of the early archosauromorph Protorosaurus speneri Meyer, 1832, and its phylogenetic relationships

(2016) Annalise Gottmann-Quesada et al.   PALAEONTOGRAPHICA ABTEILUNG A-PALAOZOOLOGIE-STRATIGRAPHIE

The origin of turtles: A paleontological perspective

(2015) Walter G. Joyce   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

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

(2015) Rainer R. Schoch et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary origin of the turtle skull

(2015) G. S. Bever et al.   NATURE

The first record of a nyctiphruretid parareptile from the Early Permian of North America, with a discussion of parareptilian temporal fenestration

(2014) Mark J. MacDougall et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Origin of the unique ventilatory apparatus of turtles

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

Integration of molecules and new fossils supports a Triassic origin for Lepidosauria (lizards, snakes, and tuatara)

(2013) Marc EH Jones et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evolutionary Origin of the Turtle Shell

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

Turtle origins: insights from phylogenetic retrofitting and molecular scaffolds

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

A new archosauriform reptile from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Germany

(2013) Rainer R. Schoch et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

First record ofColognathus(?Amniota) from the Middle Triassic of Europe

(2013) Hans-Dieter Sues et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Using Genes as Characters and a Parsimony Analysis to Explore the Phylogenetic Position of Turtles

(2013) Bin Lu et al.   PLoS One

The endoskeletal origin of the turtle carapace

(2013) Tatsuya Hirasawa et al.   Nature Communications

More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs

(2012) N. G. Crawford et al.   Biology Letters

Temporal Bone Arrangements in Turtles: An Overview

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

Evolutionary developmental perspective for the origin of turtles: the folding theory for the shell based on the developmental nature of the carapacial ridge

(2011) Shigeru Kuratani et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

New archosauriform remains from the German Lower Keuper

(2011) Rainer R. Schoch   NEUES JAHRBUCH FUR GEOLOGIE UND PALAONTOLOGIE-ABHANDLUNGEN

Transitional fossils and the origin of turtles

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

Postcranial anatomy of the rauisuchian archosaurBatrachotomus kupferzellensis

(2010) David J. Gower et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

A new species of Azendohsaurus (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the Triassic Isalo Group of southwestern Madagascar: cranium and mandible

(2010) JOHN J. FLYNN et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

A new stereospondyl from the German Middle Triassic, and the origin of the Metoposauridae

(2010) RAINER R. SCHOCH   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

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

Assembling the history of the Parareptilia: phylogeny, diversification, and a new definition of the clade

(2009) Linda A. Tsuji et al.   FOSSIL RECORD

Evolution of the Turtle Body Plan by the Folding and Creation of New Muscle Connections

(2009) H. Nagashima et al.   SCIENCE

The ontogeny of the shell in side‐necked turtles, with emphasis on the homologies of costal and neural bones

(2008) Torsten M. Scheyer et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Skull shape and feeding strategy inSphenodonand other Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida: Lepidosauria)

(2008) Marc E.H. Jones   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Turtle origins out to sea

(2008) Robert R. Reisz et al.   NATURE

An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China

(2008) Chun Li et al.   NATURE