The ability to live underground is widespread among continental vertebrates, so
understanding the origin and early evolution of fossorial vertebrates and the architecture …

The largest published phylogenetic analysis of early limbed vertebrates (Ruta M, Coates MI.
2007. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 5: 69–122) recovered, for example …

Amniota is a tetrapod group that was recognized originally in the 19th century on the basis of
developmental features (extra-embryonic membranes), but since the widespread adoption …

The origin of the limbless caecilians remains a lasting question in vertebrate evolution.
Molecular phylogenies and morphology support that caecilians are the sister taxon of …

Current hypotheses of early tetrapod evolution posit close ecological and biogeographic ties
to the extensive coal-producing wetlands of the Carboniferous palaeoequator with rapid …

Several recumbirostran 'microsaurs' are known from early Permian sites across Germany,
including the Tambach Formation in Thuringia, central Germany. The only 'microsaur'thus far …

Since its discovery, Euparkeria capensis has been a key taxon for understanding the early
evolution of archosaurs. The braincase of Euparkeria was described based on a single …

Abstract The group of Permo-Carboniferous tetrapods known as Recumbirostra have
recently been hypothesized to represent the earliest radiation of fossorial reptiles. Therefore …

Millerettidae are a group of superficially lizard-like Permian stem reptiles originally
hypothesized as relevant to the ancestry of the reptile crown group, and particularly to …

Abstract 'Microsaurs' are traditionally considered to be lepospondyl non‐amniotes, but
recent analyses have recovered a subset of 'microsaurs', the fossorially adapted …