Lab Publication List

Aguilera O, Lundberg J, Birindelli J, Sabaj Pérez M, Jaramillo C, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2013) Palaeontological evidence for the last temporal occurrence of the ancient western Amazonian river inflow into the Caribbean. PloS ONE 8(9): e76202 [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076202].

Alloing-Séguier T, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Lee MSY, Lebrun R (2013) The Bony Labyrinth in Diprotodontian Marsupial Mammals: Diversity in extant and extinct forms and Relationships with Size, and Phylogeny. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 20:191-198.

Carrillo-Briceño JD, González-Barba G, Landaeta MF, Nielsen SN (2013) Condrictios fósiles del Plioceno Superior de la Formación Horcón, Region de Valparaíso, Chile central. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 86(2):191-206.

Carrillo-Briceño JD, Lucas SG (2013) The first tooth set of Ptychodus atcoensis (Elasmobranchii:Ptychodontidae), from the Cretaceous of Venezuela. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 132:69-75.

Cerda IA, Desojo JB, Scheyer TM, Schultz CL (2013) Osteoderm microstructure of "rauisuchian" archosaurs from South America. Geobios 46:273-283 [doi: 10.1016/j.geobios.2013.01.004].

Delfino M, Scheyer TM, Chesi F, Fletcher T, Gemel R, MacDonald S, Rabi M, Salisbury SW (2013) Gross morphology and microstructure of type locality ossicles of Psephophorus polygonus Meyer, 1847 (Testudines, Dermochelyidae). Geological Magazine 150:767-782 [doi:10.1017/S001675681200091X].

Geiger M, Wilson LAB, Costeur L, Sánchez R, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2013) Diversity and growth in giant caviomorphs from the northern neotropics – a study of femoral variation in Phoberomys (Rodentia). Journal Vertebrate Paleontology 33:1449-1456.

Lyson TR, Bever GS, Scheyer TM, Hsiang A, Gauthier JA (2013) Evolutionary origin of the turtle shell. Current Biology 23:1113-1119 [doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.05.003].

Maxwell E, Furrer H, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2013) Exceptional fossil preservation demonstrates a new mode of axial skeleton elongation in basal ray-finned fishes. Nature Communications 4 (2570) [doi:10.1038/ncomms3570]. Watch Youtube video

Maxwell E, Wilson LAB (2013) Regionalization of the axial skeleton in the ‘ambush predator’ guild – are there developmental rules underlying body shape evolution in ray-finned fishes? BMC Evolutionary Biology 13:265.

Meier PS, Bickelmann C, Scheyer TM, Koyabu D, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2013) Evolution of bone compactness in extant and extinct moles (Talpidae): exploring humeral microstructure in small fossorial mammals. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13:55 [doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-55].

Neenan JM, Klein N, Scheyer TM (2013) European origin of placodont marine reptiles and the evolution of crushing dentition in Placodontia. Nature Communications 4:1621 [doi: 10.1038/ncomms2633].

Pérez-García A, Scheyer TM, Murelaga X (2013) The turtles from the uppermost Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of Galve (Iberian Range, Spain): anatomical, systematic, biostratigraphic and palaeobiogeographical implications. Cretaceous Research 44:64-82 [doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2013.03.011].

Polachowski KM, Werneburg I (2013) Late embryos and bony skull development in Bothropoides jararaca (Serpentes, Viperidae). Zoology 116:36–63 [doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2012.07.003].

Sánchez-Villagra MR (2013) Why are there fewer marsupials than placentals? On the relevance of geography and physiology in mammalian diversity and disparity evolutionary patterns. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 20:279-290. F1000 recommended

Scheyer TM, Aguilera OA, Delfino M, Fortier DC, Carlini AA, Sánchez R, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Quiroz L, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2013) Crocodylian diversity peak and extinction in the late Cenozoic of the northern Neotropics. Nature Communications 4:1907 [doi: 10.1038/ncomms2940].

Scheyer TM, Werneburg I, Mitgutsch C, Delfino M, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2013). Three ways to tackle the turtle: integrating fossils, comparative embryology, and microanatomy; pp. 63-70 in Brinkman DB, Holroyd PA, Gardner JD (Eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles. Proceedings of the Gaffney Turtle Symposium (2009) in Honor of Eugene S Gaffney. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series. Springer, Dordrecht [ISBN 978-94-007-4308-3; 577 pp.].

Straehl FR, Scheyer TM, Forasiepi AM, MacPhee RD, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2013) Evolutionary patterns of bone histology and bone compactness in xenarthran mammal long bones. Plos ONE 8(7):e69275 [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0069275].

Urdy S, Wilson LAB, Haug JT, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2013) On the unique perspective of palaeontology in the study of developmental evolution and biases. Biological Theory 8:293-311.

Werneburg I, Tzika AC, Hautier L, Asher RJ, Milinkovitch MC, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2013) Development and embryonic staging in non-model organisms: the case of an afrotherian mammal. Journal of Anatomy 222:2-18 [doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2012.01509.x].

Wilson LAB, Colombo M, Hanel R, Salzburger W, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2013) Ecomorphological disparity in an adaptive radiation: opercular bone shape and stable isotopes in Antarctic icefishes. Ecology and Evolution 3:3166–3182.

Wilson LAB, Furrer H, Stockar R, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2013) A quantitative evaluation of evolutionary patterns in opercle bone shape in Saurichthys (Actinopterygii: Saurichthyidae). Palaeontology 56:901-915.

Zachos FE, Apollonio M, Bärmann EV, Festa-Bianchet M, Göhlich U, Habel JC, Haring E, Kruckenhauser L, Lovari S, McDevitt AD, Pertoldi C, Rössner GE, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Scandura M, Suchentrunk F (2013) Species inflation and taxonomic artefacts - a critical comment on recent trends in mammalian classification. Mammalian Biology 78: 1-6.