The comparative osteology, phylogenetic relationships, and historical biogeography of all
known fossil and living gars (Ginglymodi: Lepisosteiformes) are investigated in detail …

Phylogenetic analyses dealing with disjunct distributions (distributions that require marine
dispersal or vicariant events) are reviewed for the Cichlidae. The most corroborated …

We describe the osteology of the new small theropod dinosaur Masiakasaurus knopfleri,
from the Late Cretaceous Maevarano Formation of northwestern Madagascar …

The Lower Cretaceous Crato and Santana formations have provided one of the richest
Mesozoic fish faunas from South America. An updated review of this ichthyofauna …

Family level molecular phylogenetic analyses of cichlid fishes have generally suffered from
a limited number of characters and/or poor taxonomic sampling across one or more major …

Analyses of phylogenetic topology and estimates of divergence timing have facilitated a
reconstruction of Madagascar's colonization events by vertebrate animals, but that …

The Pajcha Pata fossil locality in south central Bolivia, in the upper part of the Lower
Member of the El Molino Formation, is the first late Cretaceous fauna in South America …

Reconstructing deep-time biogeographic histories is limited by the comparatively recent
diversification of most extant lineages. Ray-finned fishes, which include nearly half of all …

The island nation of Madagascar, an international conservation priority, is now also
recognized as a global hotspot for freshwater biodiversity. Three emerging characteristics of …

Phylogenetic relationships of the Malagasy and South Asian cichlids are investigated using
nucleotide characters from two mitochondrial genes, a 544bp region of the large ribosomal …