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Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria

Ezcurra, Martín D. ; Nesbitt, Sterling J. ; Bronzati, Mario ; Vecchia, Fabio Marco Dalla ; Agnolin, Federico L. ; Benson, Roger B. J. ; Egli, Federico Brissón ; Cabreira, Sergio F. ; Evers, Serjoscha W. ; Gentil, Adriel R. ; Irmis, Randall B. ; Martinelli, Agustín G. ; Novas, Fernando E. ; Silva, Lúcio Roberto da ; Smith, Nathan D. ; Stocker, Michelle R. ; Turner, Alan H. ; Langer, Max C.

In: Nature, 2020, vol. 588, no. 2020-7838, p. 445–449

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight1 and comprised one of the main evolutionary radiations in terrestrial ecosystems of the Mesozoic era (approximately 252–66 million years ago), but their origin has remained an unresolved enigma in palaeontology since the nineteenth century2,3,4. These flying reptiles have been hypothesized to be the close relatives of a wide...

Novel insights into the morphology of Plesiochelys bigleri from the early Kimmeridgian of Northwestern Switzerland

Raselli, Irena ; Anquetin, Jérémy

In: PLOS ONE, 2019, vol. 14, no. 5, p. e0214629

Plesiochelyidae were relatively large coastal marine turtles, which inhabited the epicontinental seas of Western Europe during the Late Jurassic. Their fossil record can be tracked in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Portugal. The Jura Mountains, in northwestern Switzerland, have been the main source for the study of this group, mostly thanks to the rich and famous...

An exceptionally well-preserved skeleton of Palaeothentes from the Early Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina: new insights into the anatomy of extinct paucituberculatan marsupials

Forasiepi, Analia ; Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo ; Schmelzle, Thomas ; Ladevèze, Sandrine ; Kay, Richard

In: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2014, vol. 133, no. 1, p. 1-21

Paleoenvironmental conditions define current sustainability of microbial populations in Laguna Potrok Aike sediments, Argentina

Vuillemin, Aurèle ; Ariztegui, Daniel ; Lücke, Andreas ; Mayr, Christoph

In: Aquatic Sciences, 2014, vol. 76, no. 1, p. 101-114

A large skull of Ichthyosaurus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Lower Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) of Frick (NW Switzerland)

Maisch, Michael ; Reisdorf, Achim ; Schlatter, Rudolf ; Wetzel, Andreas

In: Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 2008, vol. 101, no. 3, p. 617-627

A calibrated composite section for the Late Jurassic Reuchenette Formation in northwestern Switzerland (?Oxfordian, Kimmeridgian sensu gallico , Ajoie-Region)

Jank, Markus ; Wetzel, Andreas ; Meyer, Christian

In: Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 2006, vol. 99, no. 2, p. 175-191

New Glyptodont from the Codore Formation (Pliocene), Falcón State, Venezuela, its relationship with the Asterostemma problem, and the paleobiogeography of the Glyptodontinae

Carlini, Alfredo ; Zurita, Alfredo ; Scillato-Yané, Gustavo ; Sánchez, Rodolfo ; Aguilera, Orangel

In: Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 2008, vol. 82, no. 2, p. 139-152

The Tropics as Reservoir of Otherwise Extinct Mammals: The Case of Rodents from a New Pliocene Faunal Assemblage from Northern Venezuela

Vucetich, M. ; Carlini, Alfredo ; Aguilera, Orangel ; Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo

In: Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2010, vol. 17, no. 4, p. 265-273

A Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) ophthalmosaurid (Reptilia, Ichthyosauria) from the Tuxedni Formation, Alaska and the early diversification of the clade

DRUCKENMILLER, PATRICK S. ; MAXWELL, ERIN E.

In: Geological Magazine, 2014, vol. 151, no. 1, p. 41-48

Unappreciated diversification of stem archosaurs during the Middle Triassic predated the dominance of dinosaurs

Foth, Christian ; Ezcurra, Martín D. ; Sookias, Roland B. ; Brusatte, Stephen L. ; Butler, Richard J.

In: BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2016, vol. 16, p. 188

Archosauromorpha originated in the middle–late Permian, radiated during the Triassic, and gave rise to the crown group Archosauria, a highly successful clade of reptiles in terrestrial ecosystems over the last 250 million years. However, scientific attention has mainly focused on the diversification of archosaurs, while their stem lineage (i.e. non- archosaurian archosauromorphs) has often...