New insights into the brain, braincase, and ear region of tyrannosaurs (Dinosauria, Theropoda), with implications for sensory organization and behavior

LM Witmer, RC Ridgely - The Anatomical Record: Advances in …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The braincase region of tyrannosaurs was investigated to provide insights on anatomical
attributes relevant to inferences of sensory biology and behavior. CT scanning focused on …

A review of the carotid artery and facial nerve canal systems in extant turtles

Y Rollot, SW Evers, WG Joyce - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
The cranial circulation and innervation systems of turtles have been studied for more than
two centuries and extensively used to understand turtle systematics. Although a significant …

Using CT to peer into the past: 3D visualization of the brain and ear regions of birds, crocodiles, and nonavian dinosaurs

LM Witmer, RC Ridgely, DL Dufeau… - … imaging: towards a new …, 2008 - Springer
Until relatively recently, information on the internal skull structures of fossil taxa relied on
fortuitous breaks, aggressive removal of rock matrix (Galton 1989, 2001), sectioning with a …

CRANIOFACIAL ANATOMY OF MAJUNGASAURUS CRENATISSIMUS (THEROPODA: ABELISAURIDAE) FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF MADAGASCAR

SD Sampson, LM Witmer - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Recent fieldwork in the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maevarano Formation, northwest
Madagascar, has yielded important new skull material of the abelisaurid theropod …

A new tyrannosaur with evidence for anagenesis and crocodile-like facial sensory system

TD Carr, DJ Varricchio, JC Sedlmayr, EM Roberts… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
A new species of tyrannosaurid from the upper Two Medicine Formation of Montana
supports the presence of a Laramidian anagenetic (ancestor-descendant) lineage of Late …

Archosaur adductor chamber evolution: integration of musculoskeletal and topological criteria in jaw muscle homology

CM Holliday, LM Witmer - Journal of Morphology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The homologies of jaw muscles among archosaurs and other sauropsids have been
unclear, confounding interpretation of adductor chamber morphology and evolution …

[КНИГА][B] Muscles of vertebrates: comparative anatomy, evolution, homologies and development

R Diogo, V Abdala - 2010 - taylorfrancis.com
The Vertebrata is one of the most speciose groups of animals, comprising more than 58,000
living species. This book provides a detailed account on the comparative anatomy …

Cranial osteology and phylogenetic position of the theropod dinosaur Proceratosaurus bradleyi (Woodward, 1910) from the Middle Jurassic of England

OWM Rauhut, AC Milner… - Zoological Journal of the …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The cranial osteology of the small theropod dinosaur Proceratosaurus from the Bathonian of
Minchinhampton, England, is described in detail, based on new preparation and computed …

Craniofacial morphology of Simosuchus clarki (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar

NJ Kley, JJW Sertich, AH Turner… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Simosuchus clarki is a small, pug-nosed notosuchian crocodyliform from the Late
Cretaceous of Madagascar. Originally described on the basis of a single specimen including …

Vascular patterns in the heads of crocodilians: blood vessels and sites of thermal exchange

WR Porter, JC Sedlmayr, LM Witmer - Journal of Anatomy, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Extant crocodilians are a highly apomorphic archosaur clade that is ectothermic, yet often
achieve large body sizes that can be subject to higher heat loads. Therefore, the anatomical …