A short-snouted, Middle Triassic phytosaur and its implications for the morphological evolution and biogeography of Phytosauria

MR Stocker, LJ Zhao, SJ Nesbitt, XC Wu, C Li - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Following the end-Permian extinction, terrestrial vertebrate diversity recovered by the Middle
Triassic, and that diversity was now dominated by reptiles. However, those reptilian clades …

A dome-headed stem archosaur exemplifies convergence among dinosaurs and their distant relatives

MR Stocker, SJ Nesbitt, KE Criswell, WG Parker… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
Similarities in body plan evolution, such as wings in pterosaurs, birds, and bats or
limblessness in snakes and amphisbaenians, can be recognized as classical examples of …

A taxonomic and biostratigraphic re-evaluation of the Post Quarry vertebrate assemblage from the Cooper Canyon Formation (Dockum Group, Upper Triassic) of …

JW Martz, B Mueller, SJ Nesbitt, MR Stocker… - … Transactions of the …, 2012 - cambridge.org
The Post Quarry, within the lower part of the type section of the Upper Triassic Cooper
Canyon Formation in southern Garza County, western Texas, contains a remarkably diverse …

A giant phytosaur (Diapsida, Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of India with new insights on phytosaur migration, endemism and extinction

D Datta, S Ray - Papers in Palaeontology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A new Mystriosuchinae phytosaur, Colossosuchus techniensis, is described from the Upper
Triassic Tiki Formation of India. Colossosuchus is diagnosed by multiple apomorphies …

Late Triassic terrestrial tetrapods: biostratigraphy, biochronology and biotic events

SG Lucas - The Late Triassic world: Earth in a time of transition, 2018 - Springer
The fossil record of Late Triassic tetrapods can be organized biostratigraphically and
biochronologically into five, temporally successive land-vertebrate faunachrons (LVFs) that …

A new phylogenetic analysis of Phytosauria (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) with the application of continuous and geometric morphometric character coding

AS Jones, RJ Butler - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Phytosauria is a clade of large, carnivorous, semi-aquatic archosauromorphs which reached
its peak diversity and an almost global distribution in the Late Triassic (c. 230–201 Mya) …

Concurrence of Late Triassic lithostratigraphic, radioisotopic, and biostratigraphic data support a Carnian age for the Popo Agie Formation (Chugwater Group) …

DM Lovelace, AJ Fitch, D Schwartz, M Schmitz - Bulletin, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Upper Triassic Popo Agie Formation of the Chugwater Group of Wyoming,
northeastern Utah, and northwestern Colorado has been an enigmatic unit since its …

The early fossil record of dinosaurs in North America: a new neotheropod from the base of the Upper Triassic Dockum Group of Texas

SJ Nesbitt, MD Ezcurra - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2015 - BioOne
The dinosaur record from the stratigraphically-lowest portions of Upper Triassic deposits of
western North America is poor and only consists of a handful of fragmentary hind limb …

[HTML][HTML] Redescription of Calyptosuchus (Stagonolepis) wellesi (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia: Aetosauria) from the Late Triassic of the Southwestern United States with …

WG Parker - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Calyptosuchus wellesi is a medium-sized desmatosuchian aetosaur common in Adamanian
(early to middle Norian) age rocks from the Chinle Formation and Dockum Group of the …

Relationships of the Indian phytosaur Parasuchus hislopi Lydekker, 1885

CF Kammerer, RJ Butler… - Papers in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The neotype skull of the Indian phytosaur P arasuchus hislopi L ydekker, 1885 (ISI R 42) is
re‐evaluated and compared with the type material of other basal phytosaurs. P arasuchus …