Lab Publication List

Asher RJ, Geisler JH, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2008) Morphology, palaeontology, and placental mammal phylogeny. Systematic Biology. 57: 311-317.

Barrett PM, Butler RJ, Novas FE, Moore-Fay S, Moody JM, Clark JM, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2008) Dinosaur remains from the La Quinta Formation (Lower or Middle Jurassic) of the Venezuelan Andes. In: Vertebrate Palaeontology in Venezuela. Eds: Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera O. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 82: 163-177.

Carmona FD, Motokawa M, Tokita M, Tsuchiyi K, Jiménez R, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2008) The evolution of female mole ovotestes evidences high plasticity of mammalian gonad development. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular and Developmental Evolution) 310B: 259-266.

Gaffney ES, Scheyer TM, Johnson KG, Bocquentin Villanueva J, Aguilera O (2008) Two new species of the side necked turtle genus, Bairdemys (Pleurodira, Podocnemididae), from the Miocene of Venezuela. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 82: 209-229.

Hooker JJ, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Goin FG, Simons EL, Attia Y, Seiffert ER. (2008) The origin of Afro-Arabian 'didelphimorph' marsupials. Palaeontology 51: 635-648.

Horovitz I, Ladevèze S, Argot C, Hooker JJ, Macrini TE, Martin T, Kurz C, Muizon C de, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2008) The anatomy of Herpetotherium fugax Cope 1873, a metatherian from the Oligocene of North America. Palaeontographica 284: 109-141.

Ladevèze S, Asher RJ, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2008) Petrosal Anatomy in the fossil mammal Necrolestes: evidence for metatherian affinities and comparisons with the extant marsupial mole. Journal of Anatomy 213: 686-697.

Mitgutsch C, Piekarski N, Olsson L, Haas A (2008) Heterochronic shifts during early cranial neural crest migration in two Ranid frogs. Acta Zoologica 89: 69-78.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Brinkmann W, Lozsán R (2008) The Palaeozoic and Mesozoic vertebrate record of Venezuela: An overview and summary of previous discoveries. In: Vertebrate Palaeontology in Venezuela. Eds: Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera O. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 82: 113-124.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Goswami A, Weisbecker V, Mock O, Kuratani S (2008) Conserved relative timing of cranial ossification patterns in early mammalian evolution. Evolution & Development 10: 519-530.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Ziermann JM, Olsson L. (2008) Limb chondrogenesis in Graptemys nigrinoda (Emydidae), with comments on the primary axis and the digital arch in turtles. Amphibia-Reptilia 29: 85-92.

Scheyer TM (2008) Aging the oldest turtles: the placodont affinities of Priscochelys hegnabrunnensis. Naturwissenschaften 95: 803-810.

Scheyer TM, Anquetin J (2008) Bone histology of the Middle Jurassic turtle shell remains from Kirtlington, Oxfordshire, England. Lethaia 41: 85-96.

Scheyer TM, Brüllmann B, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2008) The ontogeny of the shell in side-necked turtles, with emphasis on the homologies of costal and neural bones. Journal of Morphology 269: 1008-1021.

Weisbecker V, Goswami A, Wroe S, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2008) Ossification heterochrony in the mammalian postcranial skeleton and the marsupial-placental dichotomy. Evolution 62: 2027-2041.

Wilson LAB, MacLeod N, Humphrey LT (2008) Morphometric criteria for sexing juvenile human skeletons using the ilium. Journal of Forensic Sciences 53: 269-278.