Lab Publication List

Albino AM, Rothschild B, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Neenan JM (2018) Spondyloarthropathy in vertebrae of the aquatic Cretaceous snake Lunaophis aquaticus, and its first recognition in modern snakes. The Science of Nature 105:51 [doi: 10.1007/s00114-018-1576-7].

Argyriou T, Giles S, Friedman M, Romano C, Kogan I, Sánchez-Villagra M (2018) Internal cranial anatomy of Early Triassic species of †Saurichthys (Actinopterygii: †Saurichthyiformes): implications for the phylogenetic placement of †saurichthyiforms. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18:161.

Carlini AA, Brandoni D, Sánchez R, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2018) A new Megatheriinae skull (Xenarthra, Tardigrada) from the Pliocene of Northern Venezuela - implications for a giant sloth dispersal to Central and North America. Palaeontologia Electronica 21.2.16A:1-12 [doi: 10.26879/771].

Carrillo JD, Amson E, Jaramillo C, Sánchez R, Quiroz L, Cuartas C, Rincón A, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2018) 3D models related to the publication: The Neogene record of northern South American native ungulates. MorphoMuseuM 4:e61.

Carrillo JD, Amson E, Jaramillo C, Sánchez R, Quiroz L, Cuartas C, Rincón AF, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2018) The Neogene record of Northern South American native ungulates. Smithsonian Contributions to Palaeobiology 101:67 pp [doi: 10.5479/si.1943-6688.101].

Carrillo-Briceño JD, Carrillo JD, Aguilera OA, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2018) Shark and ray diversity in the Tropical America (Neotropics) – an examination of environmental and historical factors affecting diversity, PeerJ 6:e5313 [doi: 10.7717/peerj.5313].

Carrillo-Briceño JD, Reyes-Cespedes AE, Salas-Gismondi R, Sánchez R (2018) A new vertebrate continental assemblage from the Tortonian of Venezuela. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology:1-12.

Costeur L, Grohé C, Aguirre-Fernández G, Ekdale E, Schulz G, Müller B, Mennecart B (2018) The bony labyrinth of toothed whales reflects both phylogeny and habitat preferences. Scientific Reports 8 (1):7841 [doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-26094-0].

Delfino M, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2018) A Late Miocene pipine frog from the Urumaco Formation, Venezuela. Ameghiniana 55 (2):210-214. [doi: 10.5710/AMGH.04.10.2017.3136].

Dentzien-Dias P, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Francischini H, Sánchez R (2018) Paleoecological and taphonomical aspects of the Late Miocene vertebrate coprolites (Urumaco Formation) of Venezuela. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 490:590-603 [doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.11.048].

Geiger M, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2018) Similar rates of morphological evolution in domesticated and wild pigs and dogs. Frontiers in Zoology 15 (1):23 [doi: 10.1186/s12983-018-0265-x].

Geiger M, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Lindholm AK (2018) A longitudinal study of phenotypic changes in early domestication of house mice. Royal Society Open Science 5 (3):172099 [doi: 10.1098/rsos.172099].

Guinot G, Carrillo-Briceño JD (2018) Lamniform sharks from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Venezuela. Cretaceous Research 82:1-20 [doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2017.09.021].

Heck L, Clauss M, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2018) Do domesticated mammals selected for intensive production have less variable gestation periods? Mammalian Biology 88:151-155 [doi: 10.1016/j.mambio.2017.09.004].

Heck L, Wilson LA, Evin A, Stange M, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2018) Shape variation and modularity of skull and teeth in domesticated horses and wild equids. Frontiers in Zoology 15 (1):14 [doi: 10.1186/s12983-018-0258-9].

Hüppi E, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Tzika AC, Werneburg I (2018) Ontogeny and phylogeny of the mammalian chondrocranium: the cupula nasi anterior and associated structures of the anterior head region. Zoological Letters 4:29 [doi: 10.1186/s40851-018-0112-0].

Loza CM, Reutimann O, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Carlini AA, Aguirre-Fernández G (2018) Evolutionary transformations of the malleus in pinnipeds, with emphasis on Southern Hemisphere taxa. Contributions to Zoology 87 (2):75-85.

Martínez-Pérez C, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Esparza C, Ferrón HG, Manzanares E, Hammann C, Botella H (2018) A Serravallian (Middle Miocene) shark fauna from Southeastern Spain and its palaeoenvironment significance. Historical Biology 30 (3):422-432 [doi: 10.1080/08912963.2017.1326111].

Partarrieu D, Villafaña JA, Pinto L, Mourgues FA, Oyanadel-Urbina PA, Rivadeneira MM, Carrillo-Briceño JD (2018) Neogene 'horn sharks' Heterodontus (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) from the Southeastern Pacific and their paleoenvironmental significance. Ameghiniana 55 (6):651-667.

Pimiento C, Tang KL, Zamora S, Klug C, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2018) Assessing canalisation of intraspecific variation on a macroevolutionary scale: the case of crinoid arms through the Phanerozoic. Peerj 6:e4899 [doi: 10.7717/peerj.4899].

Sánchez-Villagra MR (2018) Book review of Rui Diogo 2017 Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior: A Unifying View of Life, Function, Form, Mismatches and Trends. Springer, 252 pages. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 137:109–112 [doi: 10.1007/s13358-017-0139-4].

Smith-Paredes D, Núñez-León D, Soto-Acuña S, O’Connor J, Botelho JF, Vargas AO (2018) Dinosaur ossification centres in embryonic birds uncover developmental evolution of the skull. Nature Ecology & Evolution:1 [doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0713-1].

Stange M, Aguirre-Fernández G, Salzburger W, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2018) Study of morphological variation of northern Neotropical Ariidae reveals conservatism despite macrohabitat transitions. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18 (1):38 [doi: 10.1186/s12862-018-1152-y].

Stange M, Núñez-León D, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Jensen P, Wilson LAB (2018) Morphological disparity under domestication: how variable are chicken? Royal Society Open Science 5:180993.

Stange M, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Salzburger W, Matschiner M (2018) Bayesian divergence-time estimation with genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphismdata of sea catfishes (Ariidae) supports Miocene closure of the Panamanian Isthmus. Systematic biology 67 (4):681-699.

Veitschegger K, Kolb C, Amson E, Scheyer TM, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2018) Palaeohistology and life history evolution in cave bears, Ursus spelaeus sensu lato. Plos One 13 (11):e0206791 [doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206791].

Veitschegger K, Wilson LAB, Nussberger B, Camenisch G, Keller LF, Wroe S, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2018) Resurrecting Darwin’s Niata - anatomical, biomechanical, genetic, and morphometric studies of morphological novelty in cattle. Scientific Reports 8 (1):9129 [doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-27384-3].