Lab Publication List

Aeschbach M, Carrillo JD, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2016) On the growth of the largest living rodent: postnatal skull and dental shape changes in capybara species (Hydrochoerus spp.). Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift for Säugetierkunde 81 (6):558-570 [doi: 10.1016/j.mambio.2016.02.010].

Albino A, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Neenan JM (2016) An enigmatic aquatic snake from the Cenomanian of Northern South America. PeerJ 4:e2027 [doi: 10.7717/peerj.2027].

Amson E, Carrillo JD, Jaramillo C (2016) 3D models related to the publication: Neogene sloth assemblages (Mammalia, Pilosa) of the Cocinetas Basin (La Guajira, Colombia): implications for the Great American Biotic Interchange. MorphoMuseuM 2 (1)-e3 [doi:10.18563/m3.2.1.e3].

Amson E, Carrillo JD, Jaramillo C (2016) Neogene sloth assemblages (Mammalia, Pilosa) of the Cocinetas Basin (La Guajira, Colombia) implications for the Great American Biotic Interchange. Palaeontology 59 (4):563–582 [doi: 10.1111/pala.12244].

Amson E, Kolb C (2016) Scaling effect on the mid-diaphysis properties of long bones—the case of the Cervidae (deer). The Science of Nature 103(7):1-10 [doi: 10.1007/s00114-016-1379-7].

Amson E, Muizon C, Gaudin TJ (2016) A reappraisal of the phylogeny of the Megatheria (Mammalia: Tardigrada), with an emphasis on the relationships of the Thalassocninae, the marine sloths. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society [doi: 10.1111/zoj.12450].

Argyriou T, Clauss M, Maxwell EE, Furrer H, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2016) Exceptional preservation reveals gastrointestinal anatomy and evolution in early actinopterygian fishes. Scientific Reports 6:18758 [doi: 10.1038/srep18758].

Ayala R, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Macsotay O (2016) Invertebrados del Cretácico superior de la Formación Colón (Campaniense-Maastrichtiense), Andes de Venezuela. Acta Científica Venezolana 67 (2):48-68.

Carrillo-Briceño JD, Aguilera OA, De Gracia C, Aguirre-Fernández G, Kindlimann R, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2016) An early Neogene elasmobranch fauna from the southern Caribbean (Western Venezuela). Palaeontologia Electronica 19.2.27A:1-32.

Carrillo-Briceño JD, Amson E, Zurita A, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2016) Hermann Karsten (1817-1908): a German naturalist in the Neotropics and the significance of his paleovertebrate collection. Fossil Record 20(1): 21-36 [doi: 10.5194/fr-20-21-2016].

Carrillo-Briceño JD, Argyriou T, Zapata V, Kindlimann R, Jaramillo C (2016) A new early Miocene (Aquitanian) Elasmobranchii assemblage from the la Guajira Peninsula, Colombia. Ameghiniana 53:77–99.

Carrillo-Briceño JD, Cadena EA, Dececchi AT, Larson HCE, Du TY (2016) First record of a hybodont shark (Chondrichthyes: Hybodontiformes) from the Lower Cretaceous of Colombia. Neotropical Biodiversity 2(1):81-86.

Cerda IA, Desojo JB, Trotteyn MJ, Scheyer TM (2016) Osteoderm histology of Proterochampsia and Doswelliidae (Reptilia: Archosauriformes) and their evolutionary and paleobiological implications. Journal of Morphology 276(4):385-402 [doi: 10.1002/jmor.20348].

Forasiepi AM, MacPhee RDE, Hernández del Pino S, Schmidt GI, Amson E, Grohé C (2016). Exceptional skull of Huayqueriana (Mammalia, Litopterna, Macraucheniidae) from the late Miocene of Argentina : anatomy, systematics, and paleobiological implications. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 404:1-76.

Frey L, Maxwell EE, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2016) Intraspecific variation in fossil vertebrate populations: fossil killifishes (Actinopterygii: Cyprinodontiformes) from the Oligocene of Central Europe. Palaeontologia Electronica 19.2.14A:1-27.

Geiger M, Gendron K, Willmitzer F, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2016) Unaltered sequence of dental, skeletal, and sexual maturity in domestic dogs compared to the wolf. Zoological Letters 2:16 [doi: 10.1186/s40851-016-0055-2].

Geiger M, Haussman S (2016) Cranial suture closure in domestic dog breeds and its relationships to skull morphology. The Anatomical Record 299(4):412-420 [doi: 10.1002/ar.23313].

Goswami A, Randau M, Polly PD, Weisbecker V, Bennett CV, Hautier L, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2016) Do developmental constraints and high integration limit the evolution of the marsupial oral apparatus? Integrative and Comparative Biology 56 (3):404-415.

Hastings A, Reisser M, Scheyer TM (2016) Character evolution and the origin of Caimaninae (Crocodylia) in the New World tropics: new evidence from the Miocene of Panama and Venezuela. Journal of Paleontology 90(2):317-332 [doi: 10.1017/jpa.2016.37].

Klein N, Sander PM, Krahl A, Scheyer TM, Houssaye A (2016) Diverse aquatic adaptations in Nothosaurus spp. (Sauropterygia)—inferences from humeral histology and microanatomy. PLOS ONE 11(7):e0158448 [doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158448].

Lopes MS, Bertucci TCP, Rapagnã L, de Almeida Tubino R, Monteiro-Neto C, Tomas ARG, Tenório MC, Lima T, Souza R, Carrillo-Briceño JD (2016) The path towards endangered species: prehistoric fisheries in Southeastern Brazil. Plos One 11(6): e0154476.

Lyson TR, Rubidge B, Scheyer TM, de Queiroz K, Schachner ER, Smith R, Botha-Brink J, Bever GS (2016) Fossorial origin of the turtle shell. Current Biology 26(14):1887-1894 [doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.020].

Pérez LM, Pérez Panera JP, Aguilera OA, Ronchi DI, Sánchez R, Manceñido MO, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2016) Palaeontology, sedimentology, and biostratigraphy of a fossiliferous outcrop of the Early Miocene Querales Formation, Falcón Basin, Venezuela. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 135:187–203.

Pérez ME, Vallejo-Pareja MC, Carrillo JD, Jaramillo C (2016) A new Pliocene capybara (Rodentia, Caviidae) from Northern South America (Guajira, Colombia), and its implications for the Great American Biotic Interchange. Journal of Mammalian Evolution: 1-15 [doi: 10.1007/s10914-016-9356-7].

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Geiger M, Schneider RA (2016) The taming of the neural crest: a developmental perspective on the origins of morphological covariation in domesticated mammals. Royal Society Open Science 3: 160107 [doi: 10.1098/rsos.160107].

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Werneburg I (2016) Mammalian organogenesis in deep time: tools for teaching and outreach. Evolution: Education and Outreach 9(11): 1-15.

Scheyer TM, Delfino M (2016) The late Miocene caimanine fauna (Crocodylia: Alligatoroidea) of the Urumaco Formation, Venezuela. Palaeontologia Electronica 19.3.48A:1-57 [palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1625-caimanines-from-urumaco-formation].

Scheyer TM, Sues H-D (2016) Expanded dorsal ribs in the Late Triassic pseudosuchian reptile Euscolosuchus olseni. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1248768 (5 pages) [doi: 10.1080/02724634.2017.1248768].

Sobral G, Reisz R, Neenan JM, Müller J, Scheyer TM (2016) Chapter 8: Basal reptilians, marine diapsids, and turtles: the flowering of reptile diversity; pp. 207-243 in J. A. Clack, A. N. Popper, and R. A. Fay (eds.), Springer Handbook of Auditory Research. Volume 59 - Evolution of the Vertebrate Ear: Evidence from the Fossil Record. Springer, Cham, Switzerland [doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-46661-3_8].

Stange M, Aguirre-Fernández G, Cooke RG, Barros T, Salzburger W, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2016) Evolution of opercle bone shape along a macrohabitat gradient: species identification using mtDNA and geometric morphometric analyses in Neotropical sea catfishes (Ariidae). Ecology and Evolution 6 (16):5817–5830.

Veitschegger K, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2016) Tooth eruption sequences in cervids and the effect of morphology, life history and phylogeny. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 23(3):251-263 [doi: 10.1007/s10914-015-9315-8].

Werneburg I, Geiger M (2016) Ontogeny of domestic dogs and the developmental foundations of carnivoran domestication. Journal of Mammalian Evolution: 1-21 [doi: 10.1007/s10914-016-9346-9].

Werneburg I, Laurin M, Koyabu D, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2016) Evolution of organogenesis and the origin of altriciality in mammals. Evolution and Development 18:229-244.