The evolution of squamates in South America is the result of the complex geological and
paleoclimatic history of this part of the world. The incomplete and episodic fossil record …

The defining masterwork on the evolution of reptiles. Over 300 million years ago, an early
land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be …

Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and
recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …

Gekkota is often interpreted as sister to all remaining squamates, exclusive of dibamids, or
as sister to Autarchoglossa. It is the only diverse lineage of primarily nocturnal lizards and …

Fossil identification practices have a profound effect on our interpretation of the past
because these identifications form the basis for downstream analyses. Therefore, well …

We provide a detailed and first description of the skull, hyoid apparatus, and trachea of the
Turks and Caicos rock iguana, Cyclura carinata (Squamata: Iguanidae). Cyclura is a …

Snakes are a stimulating life form from an evolutionary perspective. Despite the basic
morphological body shape (limbless, with a tubular body), these vertebrates are extremely …

El Laboratorio de Vertebrados Fósiles (LVF) del Instituto Miguel Lillo de la Universidad
Nacional de Tucumán se fundó en 1957 con el impulso inicial de Osvaldo Reig, quien fue …

Sympatric species that initially overlap in resource use are expected to partition the
environment in ways that will minimize interspecific competition. This shift in resource use …

Iguanomorpha (stem+ crown Iguania) is a diverse squamate clade with members that
predominate many modern American lizard ecosystems. However, the temporal and …