Triassic stem caecilian supports dissorophoid origin of living amphibians

BT Kligman, BM Gee, AD Marsh, SJ Nesbitt, ME Smith… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Living amphibians (Lissamphibia) include frogs and salamanders (Batrachia) and the
limbless worm-like caecilians (Gymnophiona). The estimated Palaeozoic era gymnophionan …

A new phylogenetic hypothesis of Tanystropheidae (Diapsida, Archosauromorpha) and other “protorosaurs”, and its implications for the early evolution of stem …

SNF Spiekman, NC Fraser, TM Scheyer - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
The historical clade “Protorosauria” represents an important group of archosauromorph
reptiles that had a wide geographic distribution between the Late Permian and Late …

A new Middle Triassic (Ladinian) trilophosaurid stem-archosaur from Germany increases diversity and temporal range of this clade

HD Sues, RR Schoch - Royal Society Open Science, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We report the first trilophosaurid stem-archosaur from Central Europe, Rutiotomodon tytthos
gen. et sp. nov., from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) Erfurt Formation of Baden-Württemberg …

Widespread azendohsaurids (Archosauromorpha, Allokotosauria) from the Late Triassic of western USA and India

SJ Nesbitt, MR Stocker, MD Ezcurra… - Papers in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Archosauromorph reptiles underwent rapid lineage diversification, increases in
morphological and body size disparity, and expansion into new adaptive landscapes …

Cranial anatomy of Libognathus sheddi Small, 1997 (Parareptilia, Procolophonidae) from the Upper Triassic Dockum Group of West Texas, USA

BD Mueller, BJ Small, X Jenkins… - The Anatomical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Libognathus sheddi, a leptopleuronine procolophonid from the Upper Triassic Cooper
Canyon Formation, Dockum Group, West Texas, was based on an isolated left dentary and …

The redescription of Malerisaurus robinsonae (Archosauromorpha: Allokotosauria) from the Upper Triassic lower Maleri Formation, Pranhita‐Godavari Basin, India

S Sengupta, MD Ezcurra… - The Anatomical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Allokotosauria, a clade of non‐archosauriform archosauromorphs with a broad diversity of
body plans, plays a crucial role in better understanding the evolutionary history of early …

New specimen and redescription of Anisodontosaurus greeri (Moenkopi Formation: Middle Triassic) and the spatiotemporal origins of Trilophosauridae

D Foffa, SJ Nesbitt, BT Kligman, RJ Butler… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Anisodontosaurus greeri is an enigmatic small-bodied tetrapod with a heterodont dentition
from the Holbrook Member of the Moenkopi Formation (Middle Triassic) of Arizona (USA) …

Phylogenetic relationships of the European trilophosaurids Tricuspisaurus thomasi and Variodens inopinatus

SAV Chambi-Trowell, DI Whiteside… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Trilophosauridae are an extinct group of archosauromorphs from the Upper Triassic of
western North America and Nova Scotia. Possible trilophosaurids Tricuspisaurus thomasi …

Puercosuchus traverorum n. gen. n. sp.: a new malerisaurine azendohsaurid (Archosauromorpha: Allokotosauria) from two monodominant bonebeds in the Chinle …

AD Marsh, WG Parker, SJ Nesbitt, BT Kligman… - Journal of …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Non-archosaur archosauromorphs are a paraphyletic group of diapsid reptiles that were
important members of global Middle and Late Triassic continental ecosystems. Included in …

The osteology of Shringasaurus indicus, an archosauromorph from the Middle Triassic Denwa Formation, Satpura Gondwana Basin, Central India

S Sengupta, S Bandyopadhyay - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Archosauromorpha originated in the middle–late Permian and started to diversify in both
non-marine and marine ecosystems dominating the world by the Triassic. The evolution of …