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First report of Plesiochelys etalloniandTropidemys langiifrom the Late Jurassic of the UK and the palaeobiogeography of plesiochelyid turtles
(2016)
Plesiochelyidae is a clade of relatively large coastal marine turtles that inhabited the shallow epicontinental seas that covered western Europe during the Late Jurassic. Although the group has been reported from many ...
The unexpected survival of an ancient lineage of anseriformbirds into the Neogene of Australia
(2016)
Presbyornithids were the dominant birds in Palaeogene lacustrine assemblages, especially in the Northern Hemisphere, but are thought to have disappeared worldwide by the mid-Eocene. Now classified within Anseriformes ...
Temporal and phylogenetic evolution of the sauropod dinosaur body plan
(2016)
The colossal size and body plan of sauropod dinosaurs are unparalleled in terrestrial vertebrates. However, to date, there have been only limited attempts to examine temporal and phylogenetic patterns in the sauropod ...
The relationships of the Euparkeriidae and the rise of Archosauria
(2016)
For the first time, a phylogenetic analysis including all putative euparkeriid taxa is conducted, using a large data matrix analysed with maximum parsimony and Bayesian analysis. Using parsimony, the putative euparkeriidDorosuchus ...