Whole‐body endothermy: ancient, homologous and widespread among the ancestors of mammals, birds and crocodylians

G Grigg, J Nowack, JEPW Bicudo, NC Bal… - Biological …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The whole‐body (tachymetabolic) endothermy seen in modern birds and mammals is long
held to have evolved independently in each group, a reasonable assumption when it was …

Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles

CT Griffin, MR Stocker, C Colleary… - Biological …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Morphology forms the most fundamental level of data in vertebrate palaeontology because it
is through interpretations of morphology that taxa are identified, creating the basis for broad …

[كتاب][B] Vertebrate skeletal histology and paleohistology

V de Buffrénil, AJ de Ricqlès, L Zylberberg, K Padian - 2021‏ - books.google.com
Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology summarizes decades of research into the
biology and biological meaning of hard tissues, in both living and extinct vertebrates. In …

A review of the osteoderms of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata)

C Williams, A Kirby, A Marghoub, L Kéver… - Biological …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Osteoderms are mineralised structures consisting mainly of calcium phosphate and
collagen. They form directly within the skin, with or without physical contact with the skeleton …

The pseudosuchian record in paleohistology: A small review

TM Scheyer - The Anatomical Record, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
Archosauria originated around the Earth's largest biotic crisis that severely affected all
ecosystems globally, the Permotriassic Mass extinction event, and comprises two crown …

Osteology and relationships of Revueltosaurus callenderi (Archosauria: Suchia) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park …

WG Parker, SJ Nesbitt, RB Irmis, JW Martz… - The Anatomical …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Once known solely from dental material and thought to represent an early ornithischian
dinosaur, the early‐diverging pseudosuchian Revueltosaurus callenderi is described from a …

Bizarre dermal armour suggests the first African ankylosaur

SCR Maidment, SJ Strachan, D Ouarhache… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Ankylosauria is a diverse clade of armoured dinosaurs whose members were important
constituents of many Cretaceous faunas. Phylogenetic analyses imply that the clade …

Garzapelta muelleri gen. et sp. nov., a new aetosaur (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the Late Triassic (middle Norian) middle Cooper Canyon Formation, Dockum …

WA Reyes, JW Martz, BJ Small - The Anatomical Record, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Late Triassic Dockum Group in northwestern Texas preserves a rich diversity of
pseudosuchian taxa, particularly of aetosaurs. In this contribution, we present Garzapelta …

Differentiation and growth of bone ornamentation in vertebrates: a comparative histological study among the Crocodylomorpha

V De Buffrénil, F Clarac, M Fau, S Martin… - Journal of …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Bone ornamentation, that is, hollow (pits and grooves) or protruding (ridges) repetitive reliefs
on the surface of dermal bones, is a frequent, though poorly studied and understood, feature …

[HTML][HTML] Dinosaur paleohistology: review, trends and new avenues of investigation

AM Bailleul, J O'Connor, MH Schweitzer - PeerJ, 2019‏ - peerj.com
In the mid-19th century, the discovery that bone microstructure in fossils could be preserved
with fidelity provided a new avenue for understanding the evolution, function, and …