Evolutionary Morphology and Palaeobiology of Vertebrates
Zooarchaeology of the Prehispanic Northern Neotropics
The research group around Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra

Lab Publication List

PhD Theses



Benites Palomino Aldo Marcelo (2025) Miocene Aquatic Mammals of the Neotropics: Systematics and Trophic Relationships.
Jorgewich Cohen Gabriel (2023) Macroevolutionary Patterns of Phenotypic Traits in Turtle: From Bones to Songs.
Balcarcel Ana Mercedes (2022) Cranial and Brain Evolution in Late Pleisocence and Domesticated Artiodactyls.
Hüppi Evelyn (2022) Patterns of Morphological Evolution in the Bird Skull.
Núñez Daniel (2021) Embryonic development and morphological variation in chicken domestication.
Argyriou Thodoris (2018) Paleobiology and Interrelationships of Permian-Triassic actinopterygians.
Carrillo Juan (2018) Systematics of the South American Native Ungulates and the Neogene Evolution of Mammals from Northern South America.
Heck Laura (2018) A Developmental Perspective on the Origin of Morphological Disparity in Domesticated Horses.
Carrillo Briceño Jorge Domingo (2017) Palaeodiversity of Chondrichthyan Faunas from the Neogene of Tropical America.
Stange Madlen (2017) Evolution in Northern Neotropical Catfishes – Integrating Genomics and Morphometrics.
Veitschegger Kristof (2017) Life History Evolution in Extant and Extinct Laurasiatheria – Case Studies Elucidating the Junctions among Selective Forces, Disparity, and Trait Evolution.
Kolb Christian (2016) Bone and tooth microstructure in extinct and extant mammals and implications for growth and life history evolution, with an emphasis on cervids as a case study.
Geiger Madeleine (2015) Skeletal growth and life history evolution in wild and domesticated mammals.
Hugi Jasmina (2011) Aspects of limb development in fossil and recent eureptiles: morphological and histological approaches.
Carlini Alfredo (2010) Fossil Xenarthran Mammals From Venezuela - Taxonomy, Patterns Of Evolution And Associated Faunas.
Werneburg Ingmar (2010) Evolution and Development of Turtles: Organogenesis and Cranial Musculature.
Wilson Laura (2010) The Evolution of Morphological Diversity in Rodents: Patterns of Cranial Ontogeny.

Pre Zürich PhD Theses

Schmelzle Thomas (2010) Ontogenese, Phylogenese und ökomorphologische Aspekte in der Ohrregion bei den Diprotodontia (Mammalia: Marsupialia). Universität Tübingen, Germany.