Lab Publication List

Bärmann EV, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2012) A phylogenetic study of late growth events in a mammalian evolutionary radiation - The cranial sutures of terrestrial cetartiodactyl mammals. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 19:43-56.

Barrett PM, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2012) Los dinosaurios del Táchira. Pp- 111-117. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR (ed). Venezuela Paleontológica. Printworkart Press. 382 pp.

Bickelmann C, Mitgutsch C, Richardson MK, Jiménez R, de Bakker MAG, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2012) Transcriptional heterochrony in talpid mole autopods. Evo-Devo (BMC) 3:16 [doi:10.1186/2041-9139-3-16].

Forasiepi AM, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Hoyos JM (2012) La Paleontología: Estudio de la Biodiversidad Extinta en un Marco Evolutivo. Pp- 15-34. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR (ed). Venezuela Paleontológica. Printworkart Press. 382 pp.

Goswami A, Polly PD, Mock OB, Sánchez Villagra MR (2012) Shape, variance, and integration during craniogenesis: constrasting marsupial and placental mammals. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25:862-872.

Horovitz IH, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2012) El Registro Fósil del Cenozoico. Pp- 132-156. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR (ed). Venezuela Paleontológica. Printworkart Press. 382 pp.

Hoyos JM, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Carlini AC, Mitgutsch CM (2012) Skeletal development and adult osteology of Hypsiboas pulchellus (Anura: Hylidae). Acta Herpetologica. 7:119-138.

Hugi J, Hutchison MN, Koyabu D, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2012) Heterochronic shifts in the ossification sequences of surface and subsurface-dwelling skinks are correlated with the degree of limb reduction. Zoology 115(3):188-98.

Hugi J, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2012) Life history and skeletal adaptations in the Galapagos Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) as reconstructed with bone histological data — a comparative study of iguanines. Journal of Herpetology. 46:312-324.

Hugi J, Scheyer TM (2012) Ossification sequences and associated ontogenetic changes in the bone histology of pachypleurosaurids from Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland/Italy). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(2):315-327.

Jones MEH, Werneburg I, Curtis N, Penrose R, O'Higgins P, Fagan MJ, Evans SE (2012) The head and neck anatomy of sea turtles (Cryptodira: Chelonioidea) and skull shape in Testudines. PLoS ONE 7(11): e47852.

Joyce WG, Micklich N, Schaal S, Scheyer TM (2012) Caught in the act: the first record of copulating fossil vertebrates. Biology Letters [doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0361].

Koyabu DB, Maier W, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2012) Paleontological and developmental evidence resolve the homology and dual embryonic origin of a mammalian skull bone, the interparietal. PNAS 109:14075–14080 [doi: 10.1073/pnas.1208693109].

Mitgutsch C, Richardson MK, de Bakker MAG, Jiménez R, Martín JE, Kondrashov P, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2012) A molecular-morphological study of a peculiar limb morphology: the development and evolution of the mole’s ‘thumb’. In Asher RJ and Müller J (Eds.) From Clone to Bone: the Synergy of Morphological and Molecular Tools in Paleobiology. Cambridge University Press.

Mitgutsch C, Richardson MK, Jiménez R, Martín JE, Kondrashov P, de Bakker MAG, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2012) Circumventing the pentadactyly 'constraint' - autopodial recruitment of pre-axial structures in true moles. Biology Letters 8:74-77.

Neenan JM, Scheyer TM (2012) The braincase and inner ear of Placodus gigas (Sauropterygia: Placodontia)—a new reconstruction based on micro-computed tomographic data. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32:1350-1357 [doi: 10.1080/02724634.2012.695241].

Pérez-García A, Scheyer TM, Murelaga X (2012) New interpretations on Dortoka vasconica Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga, a freshwater turtle with an unusual carapace. Cretaceous Research 36:151-161.

Scheyer TM (2012) Diversidad y Gigantismo en los Cocodrilos Fósiles; pp. 245-258 In: Sánchez-Villagra MR (ed). Venezuela Paleontológica. Printworkart Press. 382 pp.

Scheyer TM, Neenan JM, Renesto S, Saller F, Hagdorn H, Furrer H, Rieppel O, Tintori A (2012) Revised paleoecology of placodonts – with a comment on ‘The shallow marine placodont Cyamodus of the central European Germanic Basin: its evolution, paleobiogeography and paleoecology’ by C.G. Diedrich (Historical Biology, iFirst article, 2011, 1–19, doi: 10.1080/08912963.2011.575938). Historical Biology 24:257-267 [doi: 10.1080/08912963.2011.621083].

Scheyer TM, Mörs T, Einarsson E (2012) First record of soft-shelled turtles (Cryptodira, Trionychidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Europe. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32:1027-1032.

Wilson LAB, Madden RH, Kay RF, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2012) Testing a developmental model in the fossil record: molar proportions in South American ungulates. Paleobiology 38:308-321.