Olivier C. Rieppel

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PhD Zoology University of Chicago
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Assembling the Squamate Tree of Life: Perspectives from the Phenotype and the Fossil Record (2012) (405)
An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China (2008) (312)
Fundamentals of comparative biology (1988) (239)
Reptile phylogeny and the interrelationships of turtles (1997) (226)
Patterns and processes (1993) (222)
THE ORIGIN AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF TURTLES (1999) (213)
A fossil snake with limbs. (2000) (199)
Turtles as diapsid reptiles (1996) (194)
A Review of the Origin of Snakes (1988) (161)
Studies on skeleton formation in reptiles. v. Patterns of ossification in the skeleton of Alligator mississippiensis DAUDIN (Reptilia, Crocodylia) (1993) (156)
Studies on skeleton formation in reptiles: Patterns of ossification in the skeleton of Chelydra serpentina (Reptilia, Testudines) (1993) (111)
Studies on skeleton formation in reptiles. I. The postembryonic development of the skeleton in Cyrtodactylus pubisulcus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) (1992) (105)
A New Pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland (1989) (101)
A basal ichthyosauriform with a short snout from the Lower Triassic of China (2014) (99)
Turtles as hopeful monsters. (2001) (88)
Modules, kinds, and homology. (2005) (86)
2 – HOMOLOGY, TOPOLOGY, AND TYPOLOGY: THE HISTORY OF MODERN DEBATES (1994) (82)
The PhyloCode: a critical discussion of its theoretical foundation (2006) (80)
The Poverty of Taxonomic Characters (2007) (79)
Feeding mechanics in Triassic stem‐group sauropterygians: the anatomy of a successful invasion of Mesozoic seas (2002) (78)
The phylogeny of anguinomorph lizards (1980) (77)
THE ANATOMY AND RELATIONSHIPS OF HAASIOPHIS TERRASANCTUS, A FOSSIL SNAKE WITH WELL-DEVELOPED HIND LIMBS FROM THE MID-CRETACEOUS OF THE MIDDLE EAST (2003) (77)
Studies of skeleton formation in reptiles. Patterns of ossification in the skeleton of Lacerta agilis exigua Eichwald (Reptilia, Squamata) (1994) (76)
A new pistosaurid (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Nevada and its implications for the origin of the plesiosaurs (1997) (72)
THE SKULL OF THE PISTOSAUR AUGUSTASAURUS FROM THE MIDDLE TRIASSIC OF NORTHWESTERN NEVADA (2002) (69)
Osteology of Simosaurus gaillardoti and the relationships of stem-group Sauropterygia / Olivier Rieppel --. (1994) (68)
The shark fauna from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of North-Western Nevada (2001) (67)
Interpreting the hierarchy of nature : from systematic patterns to evolutionary process theories (1994) (65)
The series, the network, and the tree: changing metaphors of order in nature (2010) (65)
The loss of the lower temporal arcade in diapsid reptiles (1981) (64)
Does counting species count as taxonomy? On misrepresenting systematics, yet again (2014) (64)
The cranial morphology of the fossorial lizard genus Dibamus with a consideration of its phylogenetic relationships (1984) (64)
The braincases of mosasaurs and Varanus, and the relationships of snakes (2000) (64)
The structure of the skull and jaw adductor musculature in the Gekkota, with comments on the phylogenetic relationships of the Xantusiidae (Reptilia: Lacertilia) (1984) (61)
Species: kinds of individuals or individuals of a kind (2007) (60)
Phylogeny and paleobiogeography of Triassic Sauropterygia: problems solved and unresolved (1999) (60)
Morphology of the skull of the white‐nosed blindsnake, Liotyphlops albirostris (Scolecophidia: Anomalepididae) (2009) (59)
Terrestrial Origin of Viviparity in Mesozoic Marine Reptiles Indicated by Early Triassic Embryonic Fossils (2014) (59)
Popper and systematics. (2003) (59)
Macropredatory ichthyosaur from the Middle Triassic and the origin of modern trophic networks (2013) (58)
A revision of the genus Nothosaurus (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Germanic Triassic, with comments on the status of Conchiosaurus clavatus / Olivier Rieppel --, Rupert Wild --. (1996) (57)
Semaphoronts, cladograms and the roots of total evidence (2003) (56)
Homology and logical fallacy (1992) (55)
Phylogeny of the Ichthyopterygia Incorporating Recent Discoveries from South China (2016) (55)
The recessus scalae tympani and its bearing on the classification of reptiles (1985) (54)
A gigantic nothosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of SW China and its implication for the Triassic biotic recovery (2014) (54)
The mosasaur tooth attachment apparatus as paradigm for the evolution of the gnathostome periodontium (2009) (54)
Phylogenetic Systematics: Haeckel to Hennig (2016) (53)
A New Pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Middle Triassic of Southwestern China and the Phylogenetic Relationships of Chinese Pachypleurosaurs (2011) (53)
The intramandibular joint in squamates, and the phylogenetic relationships of the fossil snake Pachyrhachis problematicus Haas / (2000) (52)
Studies on skeleton formation in reptiles. II: Chamaeleo hoehnelii (Squamata: Chamaeleoninae), with comments on the homology of carpal and tarsal bones (1993) (51)
The trigeminal jaw adductor musculature of Tupinambis, with comments on the phylogenetic relationships of the Teiidae (Reptilia, Lacertilia) (1980) (51)
The phylogenetic relationships of Pachyrhachis problematicus, and the evolution of limblessness in snakes (Lepidosauria, Squamata) (1999) (51)
Studies on Skeleton formation in reptiles. IV. The homology of the reptilian (amniote) astragalus revisited (1993) (51)
Green anole in Dominican amber (1980) (51)
Monophyly, Paraphyly, and Natural Kinds (2005) (51)
First Record of Placodontoidea (Reptilia, Sauropterygia, Placodontia) from the Eastern Tethys (2008) (50)
Helveticosaurus zollingeri Peyer (Reptilia, Diapsida) skeletal paedomorphosis, functional anatomy and systematic affinities (1989) (50)
MANDIBULAR MECHANICS IN VARANUS NILOTICUS (REPTILIA: LACERTILIA) (1979) (49)
The nature of parsimony and instrumentalism in systematics (2007) (49)
Paleobiogeography of Middle Triassic Sauropterygia in Central and Western Europe (1997) (49)
Rejecting “the given” in systematics (2006) (49)
A large aberrant stem ichthyosauriform indicating early rise and demise of ichthyosauromorphs in the wake of the end-Permian extinction (2016) (49)
Corosaurus alcovensis Case and the phylogenetic interrelationships of Triassic stem‐group Sauropterygia (1998) (48)
Selective extinction of Triassic marine reptiles during long-term sea-level changes illuminated by seawater strontium isotopes (2014) (48)
A New Triassic Marine Reptile from Southwestern China (2011) (48)
The hind limb of Macrocnemus bassanii (Nopcsa) (Reptilia, Diapsida): development and functional anatomy (1989) (48)
Paedomorphosis and skull structure in Malagasy chamaeleons (Reptilia: Chamaeleoninae) (1997) (47)
Tooth implantation and replacement in squamates, with special reference to mosasaur lizards and snakes. American Museum novitates ; no. 3271 (1999) (47)
The systematic status of Hanosaurus hupehensis (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic of China (1998) (45)
Functional Morphology and Ontogeny of Keichousaurus Hui (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) (2015) (45)
The Early Triassic Eosauropterygian Majiashanosaurus discocoracoidis, Gen. Et Sp. Nov. (Reptilia, Sauropterygia), from Chaohu, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China (2014) (45)
The development of the skull in Acrochordus granulatus (Schneider) (Reptilia: Serpentes), with special consideration of the otico‐occipital complex (2001) (44)
Adolf Naef (1883–1949): On Foundational Concepts and Principles of Systematic Morphology (2013) (44)
The evolution of the basicranium in the Henophidia (Reptilia: Serpentes) (1979) (44)
Are monophyly and synapomorphy the same or different? Revisiting the role of morphology in phylogenetics (2011) (43)
An Investigation into the Occurrence of Plicidentine in the Teeth of Squamate Reptiles (2006) (42)
Biodiversity and Sequence of the Middle Triassic Panxian Marine Reptile Fauna, Guizhou Province, China (2009) (42)
A GREEN RIVER (EOCENE) POLYCHROTID (SQUAMATA: REPTILIA) AND A RE-EXAMINATION OF IGUANIAN SYSTEMATICS (2007) (42)
A Triassic stem turtle with an edentulous beak (2018) (42)
The sauropterygian genera Chinchenia, Kwangsisaurus, and Sanchiaosaurus from the Lower and Middle Triassic of China (1999) (42)
A new species of Largocephalosaurus (Diapsida: Saurosphargidae), with implications for the morphological diversity and phylogeny of the group (2013) (41)
The phylogenetic relationships within the Chamaeleonidae, with comments on some aspects of cladistic analysis (1987) (41)
The Enigmatic Marine Reptile Nanchangosaurus from the Lower Triassic of Hubei, China and the Phylogenetic Affinities of Hupehsuchia (2014) (41)
TESTING THE PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF THE PLEISTOCENE SNAKE WONAMBI NARACOORTENSIS SMITH (2003) (41)
THE FIRST RECORD OF A THALATTOSAUR REPTILE FROM THE LATE TRIASSIC OF SOUTHERN CHINA (GUIZHOU PROVINCE, PR CHINA) (2000) (40)
A Triassic Aquatic Protorosaur with an Extremely Long Neck (2004) (40)
Comparative morphology of the dermal palate in squamate reptiles, with comments on phylogenetic implications (2008) (39)
The Postcranial Skeleton of Lanthanotus borneensis (Reptilia, Lacertilia) (1980) (39)
Species Are Individuals (1986) (39)
A new cyamodontoid placodont from Triassic of Guizhou, China (2002) (38)
The language of systematics, and the philosophy of ‘total evidence’ (2004) (38)
Science in Pictures: The Fossils of Monte San Giorgio (1989) (38)
The performance of morphological characters in broad‐scale phylogenetic analyses (2007) (37)
Proper names in twin worlds: Monophyly, paraphyly, and the world around us (2005) (37)
Re-writing Popper's philosophy of science for systematics. (2008) (37)
The genus Placodus : systematics, morphology, paleobiogeography, and paleobiology / Olivier Rieppel --. (1995) (36)
Species as a Process (2009) (36)
The braincase of Typhlops and Leptotyphlops (Reptilia: Serpentes) (1979) (36)
THE ANATOMY OF THE FOSSIL VARANID LIZARD SANIWA ENSIDENS LEIDY, 1870, BASED ON A NEWLY DISCOVERED COMPLETE SKELETON (2007) (35)
The philosophy of total evidence and its relevance for phylogenetic inference (2005) (35)
The skull in a hatchling of Sphenodon punctatus (1992) (35)
Tanystropheus cf. T. longobardicus from the Early Late Triassic of Guizhou Province, Southwestern China (2010) (35)
Unique method of tooth replacement in durophagous placodont marine reptiles, with new data on the dentition of Chinese taxa (2014) (35)
The Skeletal Anatomy of the Triassic Protorosaur Dinocephalosaurus orientalis Li, from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou Province, Southern China (2008) (35)
Testing homology by congruence: the pectoral girdle of turtles (1996) (35)
A functional interpretation of the varanid dentition (Reptilia, Lacertilia, Varanidae). (1979) (34)
The skull and jaw adductor musculature in chamaeleons (1981) (34)
Sauropterygia from the Middle Triassic of Makhtesh Ramon, Negev, Israel / Olivier Rieppel --, Jean-Michel Mazin --, Eitan Tchernov --. (1999) (34)
The braincases of Simosaurus and Nothosaurus: Monophyly of the Nothosauridae (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) (1994) (34)
A New Pistosauroid (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Late Ladinian Xingyi Marine Reptile Level, Southwestern China (2015) (34)
Tooth implantation and replacement in Sauropterygia (2001) (33)
A New Middle Triassic Eosauropterygian (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from Southwestern China (2008) (33)
Ontogeny—a way forward for systematics, a way backward for phylogeny (1990) (33)
The Gegenbaur Transformation: a paradigm change in comparative biology (2011) (32)
Biological Individuals and Natural Kinds (2013) (32)
A NEW PROTOROSAUR (DIAPSIDA) FROM THE UPPER BUNTSANDSTEIN OF THE BLACK FOREST, GERMANY (2006) (32)
Othenio Abel (1875–1946) and “the phylogeny of the parts” 1 (2013) (32)
On concept formation in systematics (2006) (31)
Lunge feeding in early marine reptiles and fast evolution of marine tetrapod feeding guilds (2015) (31)
ON THE PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF THE CRETACEOUS SNAKES WITH LEGS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PACHYRHACHIS PROBLEMATICUS (SQUAMATA, SERPENTES) (2002) (31)
Parsimony, likelihood, and instrumentalism in systematics (2007) (31)
The cranial anatomy of Chinese placodonts and the phylogeny of Placodontia (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) (2015) (30)
The Evolution of the Turtle Shell (2013) (30)
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) (2011) (29)
Tooth replacement in anguinomorph lizards (1978) (29)
The structure and development of the jaw adductor musculature in the turtle Chelydra serpentina (1990) (29)
Fossil reptiles from the Spanish Muschelkalk (mont‐ral and alcover, province Tarragona) (1998) (29)
The Relationships of Turtles within Amniotes (2007) (29)
The sound-transmitting apparatus in primitive snakes and its phylogenetic significance (1980) (28)
Shape disassociation and inferred heterochrony in a clade of pachypleurosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) (1999) (28)
The skull and the jaw adductor musculature in some burrowing scincomorph lizards of the genera Acontias, Typhlosaurus and Feylinia (2009) (28)
ONTOGENY AND THE HIERARCHY OF TYPES (1985) (28)
The metaphysics of Hennig's phylogenetic systematics: Substance, events and laws of nature (2007) (28)
The cranial anatomy of Placochelys placodonta Jaekel, 1902, and a review of the Cyamodontoidea (Reptilia, Placodonta) / Olivier Rieppel --. (2001) (28)
The development of the trigeminal jaw adductor musculature and associated skull elements in the lizard Podarcis sicula (1987) (28)
Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles (2009) (28)
A new species of Cymbospondylus (Diapsida, Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Nevada and a re-evaluation of the skull osteology of the genus (2006) (28)
Studies on the skull of the Henophidia (Reptilia: Serpentes) (2009) (28)
Aristotle's Ladder, Darwin's Tree. The Evolution of Visual Metaphors for Biological Order (2015) (27)
New Information on the Protorosaurian Reptile Macrocnemus fuyuanensis Li et al., 2007, from the Middle/Upper Triassic of Yunnan, China (2011) (27)
What Happens When the Language of Science Threatens to Break Down in Systematics: A Popperian Perspective (2004) (27)
The status of the sauropterygian reptile genera Ceresiosaurus, Lariosaurus, and Silvestrosaurus from the Middle Triassic of Europe / Olivier Rieppel --. (1998) (27)
New Mixosauridae (Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic of the Augusta Mountains (Nevada, USA) and their implications for mixosaur taxonomy (2004) (26)
New Essentialism in Biology (2010) (26)
Structuralism, functionalism, and the four Aristotelian causes (1990) (25)
The skull of the Uropeltinae (Reptilia, Serpentes), with special reference to the otico-occipital region (2002) (25)
A new genus of shark from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland (1982) (25)
New marine vertebrate fauna from the Middle Triassic of Nevada (1994) (25)
A Middle Triassic Vertebrate Fauna from the Jilh Formation, Saudi Arabia (1999) (24)
A NEW SPECIES OF THE SAUROPTERYGIAN GENUS NOTHOSAURUS FROM THE LOWER MUSCHELKALK OF WINTERSWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS (2003) (24)
A Carapace-Like Bony ‘Body Tube’ in an Early Triassic Marine Reptile and the Onset of Marine Tetrapod Predation (2014) (24)
Restudy of Anshunsaurus huangguoshuensis (Reptilia: Thalattosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou, China (2005) (24)
A preliminary report on a fossil chamaeleonine (Reptilia : chamaeleoninae) skull from the Miocene of Kenya (1992) (23)
The naso-frontal joint in snakes as revealed by high-resolution X-ray computed tomography of intact and complete skulls (2007) (23)
New primitive ichthyosaurian (Reptilia, Diapsida) from the Middle Triassic of Panxian, Guizhou, southwestern China and its position in the Triassic biotic recovery (2008) (23)
The skull of the rare Malaysian snake Anomochilus leonardi Smith, based on high-resolution X-ray computed tomography (2007) (23)
THINGS, TAXA AND RELATIONSHIPS (1991) (23)
The skull of the round Island boa, Casarea dussumieri Schlegel, based on high‐resolution X‐ray computed tomography (2007) (23)
Re-assessment of varanid evolution based on new data from Saniwa ensidens Leidy, 1870 (Squamata, Reptilia) (2008) (22)
A new species of Lariosaurus Sauropterygia Nothosauridae from Triassic of Guizhou, southwest China (2002) (22)
The origin of snakes: limits of a scientific debate. (2001) (22)
Studies on skeleton formation in reptiles. Patterns of ossification in the limb skeleton of Gehyra oceanica (Lesson) and Lepidodactylus lugubris (Duméril & Bibron) (1994) (22)
The Conceptual Relationship of Ontogeny, Phylogeny, and Classification (1993) (21)
The skeleton of a juvenile Lanthanotus (Varanoidea) (1992) (21)
Phylogenetics: Heed the father of cladistics (2013) (21)
A new species of the sauropterygian Cymatosaurus from the Lower Muschelkalk of Thuringia, Germany (1998) (21)
Osteology of Gobiderma pulchrum (Monstersauria, Lepidosauria, Reptilia) (2011) (21)
The evolution of the naso-frontal joint in snakes and its bearing on snake origins (2009) (21)
‘Total evidence’ in phylogenetic systematics (2009) (21)
The earliest herbivorous marine reptile and its remarkable jaw apparatus (2016) (20)
Lariosaurus xingyiensis (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Triassic of China (2003) (20)
The interrelationships of Placodontia (1997) (20)
Tooth Replacement in the Late Cretaceous Mosasaur Clidastes (2005) (20)
A New Specimen of Nothosaurus youngi from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou, China (2014) (20)
The upper temporel arcade of lizards: an ontogenetic problem (1984) (19)
The merits of similarity reconsidered (2006) (19)
NEW MORPHOLOGICAL DATA FOR EOSANIWA KOEHNI HAUBOLD, 1977 AND A REVISED PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS (2007) (19)
‘Type’ in morphology and phylogeny (2006) (19)
The first specimen of the Middle Triassic Phalarodon atavus (Ichthyosauria: Mixosauridae) from South China, showing postcranial anatomy and peri‐Tethyan distribution (2013) (19)
The Perilymphatic System of the Skull of Typhlops and Acrochordus, with Comments on the Origin of Snakes (1980) (18)
First Report of a Pectoral Girdle Muscle in Snakes, with Comments on the Snake Cervico-dorsal Boundary (2006) (18)
Willi Hennig’s dichotomization of nature (2011) (18)
Atomism, epigenesis, preformation and pre-existence: a clarification of terms and consequences (1986) (17)
Origins, taxa, names and meanings (2008) (17)
The throat musculature of Sphenodon, with comments on the primitive character states of the throat muscles in lizards. (1978) (17)
Speciation along rifting continental margins: a new Nothosaur from the Negev (Israël) (1997) (17)
Turtle Origins (1999) (17)
The trigeminal jaw adductors of primitive snakes and their homologies with the lacertilian jaw adductors (2009) (16)
Pattern and process: the early classification of snakes (1987) (16)
A Small Short-Necked Hupehsuchian from the Lower Triassic of Hubei Province, China (2014) (16)
The semaphorontic view of homology (2015) (16)
The new ichthyosauriform Chaohusaurus brevifemoralis (Reptilia, Ichthyosauromorpha) from Majiashan, Chaohu, Anhui Province, China (2019) (16)
Streptostyly and muscle function in lizards (1978) (16)
The reception of Leibniz's philosophy in the writings of Charles Bonnet (1720–1793) (1988) (15)
The development of the trigeminal jaw adductor musculature in the grass snake Natrix natrix (1988) (15)
Status of Chaohusaurus chaoxianensis (Chen, 1985) (2015) (15)
Paraplacodus and the phylogeny of the Placodontia (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) (2000) (15)
A New Specimen of Lariosaurus xingyiensis (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Ladinian (Middle Triassic) Zhuganpo Member, Falang Formation, Guizhou, China (2017) (15)
[The orbitotemporal region in the cranium of Chelydra serpentina Linnaeus (Chelonia) and Lacerta sicula Rafinesque (Lacertilia)]. (1976) (15)
Early Triassic marine reptile representing the oldest record of unusually small eyes in reptiles indicating non-visual prey detection (2019) (15)
Karl Beurlen (1901–1985), Nature Mysticism, and Aryan Paleontology (2012) (15)
A New Anisian (Middle Triassic) Eosauropterygian (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from Panzhou, Guizhou Province, China (2018) (14)
The dermal armor of the cyamodontoid placodonts (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) : morphology and systematic value / Olivier Rieppel --. (2002) (14)
Louis Agassiz (1807–1873) and the reality of natural groups (1988) (14)
“Regressed” Macrostomatan Snakes (2012) (14)
Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) and the monophyly of life (2010) (14)
Adolf Naef (1883–1949), systematic morphology and phylogenetics (2011) (14)
Willi Hennig on transformation series : metaphysics and epistemology (2006) (13)
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 (2012) (13)
The Hyobranchial Skeleton in Some Little Known Lizards and Snakes (1981) (13)
A second actinistian from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio, Kanton Tessin, Switzerland (1985) (13)
I. J. Kitching, P. L. Forey, C. J. Humpries, and D. M. Williams: Cladistics (second edition): The Theory and Practice of Parsimony Analysis (2000) (13)
Separating sexual dimorphism from other morphological variation in a specimen complex of fossil marine reptiles (Reptilia, Ichthyosauriformes, Chaohusaurus) (2018) (13)
Wilhelm Troll (1897 - 1978): idealistic morphology, physics, and phylogenetics. (2011) (13)
A cladistic classification of primitive snakes based on skull structure (2009) (12)
Revision of the Sauropterygian Reptile Genus Cymatosaurus v. Fritsch, 1894, and the Relationships of Germanosaurus Nopcsa, 1928, From the Middle Triassic of Europe (2015) (12)
Repeated evolution of durophagy during ichthyosaur radiation after mass extinction indicated by hidden dentition (2020) (12)
Hypothetico-Deductivism in Systematics: Fact or Fiction? (2008) (12)
Mesozoic Sea Dragons: Triassic Marine Life from the Ancient Tropical Lagoon of Monte San Giorgio (2019) (12)
ON XINPUSAURUS (REPTILIA: THALATTOSAURIA) (2006) (12)
A WELL-PRESERVED FOSSIL AMPHIUMID (LISSAMPHIBIA: CAUDATA) FROM THE EOCENE GREEN RIVER FORMATION OF WYOMING (1998) (12)
A New Specimen of Carroll’s Mystery Hupehsuchian from the Lower Triassic of China (2015) (11)
The cranial morphology of Tanystropheus hydroides (Tanystropheidae, Archosauromorpha) as revealed by synchrotron microtomography (2020) (11)
Aquatic Habits and Niche Partitioning in the Extraordinarily Long-Necked Triassic Reptile Tanystropheus (2020) (11)
New Information on Sexual Dimorphism and Allometric Growth in Keichousaurus hui, a Pachypleurosaur from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou, South China (2013) (11)
Evidence Supporting Predation of 4-m Marine Reptile by Triassic Megapredator (2020) (11)
Sinai Tschulok (1875–1945)—a pioneer of Cladistics (2010) (11)
Rostral structure in Thalattosauria (Reptilia, Diapsida) (2005) (11)
First Evidence of Centralia in Ichthyopterygia Reiterating Bias from Paedomorphic Characters on Marine Reptile Phylogenetic Reconstruction (2015) (11)
Othenio Abel (1875–1946): the rise and decline of paleobiology in German paleontology (2013) (11)
Homology, a deductive concept? (2009) (11)
A comparison of the skull of Lanthanotus borneensis (Reptilia: Varanoidea) with the skull of primitive snakes (2009) (11)
A new species of Tanystropheus (Reptilia: Protorosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Makhtesh Ramon, Israel (2001) (11)
The braincase of Anniella pulchra Gray (Lacertilia: Anniellidae) (1978) (10)
Panzhousaurus rotundirostris Jiang et al., 2019 (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) and the Recovery of the Monophyly of Pachypleurosauridae (2021) (10)
Marine reptiles from the Triassic of the Tre Venezie Area, Northeastern Italy / Olivier Rieppel --, Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia --. (2011) (10)
The Holotype Skull of Llistrofus pricei Carroll and Gaskill, 1978 (Microsauria: Hapsidopareiontidae) (2009) (10)
A New diapsid from the Middle Triassic of southern China (2017) (10)
The external jaw adductor of amphisbaenids (Reptilia: Amphisbaenia) (1979) (10)
The status of Shingyisaurus unexpectus from the Middle Triassic of Kweichou, China (1998) (10)
A skull ofCyamodus kuhnschnyderiNosotti &Pinna 1993, from the Muschelkalk of wasselonne (Alsace, France) (1999) (10)
3 – Preformationist and Epigenetic Biases in the History of the Morphological Character Concept (2001) (9)
The status of the sauropterygian reptile Nothosaurus juvenilis from the Middle Triassic of Germany (1995) (9)
Adult sex ratio, sexual dimorphism and sexual selection in a Mesozoic reptile (2015) (9)
Biogeography: A case of dispersing chameleons (2002) (9)
Finding the neck–trunk boundary in snakes: Anteroposterior dissociation of myological characteristics in snakes and its implications for their neck and trunk body regionalization (2012) (9)
Reydon on species, individuals and kinds: a reply (2009) (9)
The naso-frontal joint in Anilius scytale (Linnaeus) and Cylindrophis rufus (Schiegel): Serpentes, Aniliidae (1977) (9)
A New Species of Xinpusaurus (Reptilia, Thalattosauria) from the Ladinian (Middle Triassic) of Xingyi, Guizhou, Southwestern China (2016) (8)
Sauropterygia from the Muschelkalk of Djebel Rehach, southern Tunisia (1997) (8)
Atomism, transformism and the fossil record (1984) (8)
Species are individuals—the German tradition (2011) (8)
A Long-Snouted Protorosaur from the Middle Triassic of Southern China (2013) (8)
A functional and phylogenetic interpretation of the skull of the Erycinae (Reptilia, Serpentes) (2009) (7)
The role of paleontological data in testing homology by congruence (1993) (7)
The status ofAnarosaurus multidentatus von Huene (Reptilia, Sauropterygia), from the lower anisian of the lechtaler alps (Arlberg, Austria) (1995) (7)
Evolutionary Theory and the Creation Controversy (2010) (7)
The status of the sauropterygian reptilePartanosaurus zitteliSkuphos from the Middle Triassic of the Austrian Alps, with comments onMicroleptosaurus schlössenSkuphos (1996) (7)
Turtles as Hopeful Monsters: Origins and Evolution (2017) (6)
Homology: A Philosophical and Biological Perspective (2015) (6)
Styles of scientific reasoning: Adolf Remane (1898–1976) and the German evolutionary synthesis (2013) (6)
Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles.Life of the Past. Edited byZulma Gasparini, Leonardo Salgado,and, Rodolfo A. Coria. Bloomington (Indiana): Indiana University Press. $49.95. xiii + 374 p. + 14 pl.; ill.; general and taxonomic indexes. 978‐0‐253‐34857‐9. 2007. (2009) (6)
How Did the Turtle Get Its Shell? (2009) (6)
A new specimen of Diandongosaurus acutidentatus (Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan, China (2015) (6)
Development, essentialism, and population thinking: a review of Evolving Pathways ‐ Key Themes in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, edited by Alessandro Minelli and Giuseppe Fusco (2008) (5)
The dream of Charles Bonnet (1720-1793). (1985) (5)
Mesozoic Sea Dragons (2019) (5)
revision of the genus Nothosaurus (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Germanic Triassic (1996) (5)
The first Triassic vertebrate fossils from Myanmar: Pachypleurosaurs in a marine limestone (2019) (5)
A skull of Cyamodus (Sauropterygia, Placodontia) from the Triassic of Fusea, Province of Udine, northeastern Italy (2001) (5)
Logic in systematics (2006) (5)
Studies on skeleton formation in reptiles. Olivier Rieppel. (1992) (5)
The dark side of the moon (2012) (5)
The concept of the ‘organic individual’ in Haeckel’s writings (2019) (4)
The problem of extinction (2009) (4)
Status of the pachypleurosauroid Psilotrachelosaurus toeplitschi Nopcsa (Reptilia, Sauropterygia), from the Middle Triassic of Austria / Olivier Rieppel --. (1993) (4)
A skeptical look at justification (2005) (4)
Morphology and Phylogeny (2020) (3)
Viviparity in a Triassic marine archosauromorph reptile (2017) (3)
Gattei on Popper and truth (2003) (3)
Do Clades Cladogenerate? (2008) (3)
Willi Hennig as philosopher (2016) (3)
An unusual sauropterygian from the Triassic of the Savinja Alps of northern Slovenia (1997) (3)
Ontogeny and the recognition of primitive character states (2009) (3)
7. Biological Individuality and Enkapsis: From Martin Heidenhain’s Synthesiology to the Völkisch National Community (2019) (2)
Progress in evolution : snakes as an example (1991) (2)
The Atlas-Axis Complex (1980) (2)
Why to be a cladist (2009) (2)
Nothosaurus Muenster, 1834 (Reptilia, Sauropterygia): Proposed Precedence Over Conchiosaurus Meyer, (1833) (1996) (2)
Radinsky, L. B., 1987. The Evolution of Vertebrate Design. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London. xi + 188 pp. £27.95, pbk. £10.50 (1989) (2)
ON THE PRESENCE AND FUNCTION OF POST-CLOACAL BONES IN THE LACERTILIA (2013) (2)
Of Parts and Wholes (2016) (2)
9. MONOPHYLY AND THE TWO HIERARCHIES (2019) (1)
The status of the nothosaurian reptile Elmosaurus lelmensis, with comments on Nothosaurus mirabilis (1993) (1)
Wagner, G. P. 2014. Homology, Genes, and Evolutionary Novelties. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 498 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐691‐15646‐0 (2015) (1)
Hugo Dingler (1881–1954) and the Philosophical Foundation of the German Evolutionary Synthesis (2011) (1)
The Phylogenetic Position of the Genus Anniella (1980) (1)
The “Law of Superposition” (2011) (1)
5. The Early Cladogenesis Of Cladistics (2019) (1)
Osteology of Gobiderma pulchrum (Monstersauria, Lepidosauria, Reptilia). (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 362) (2011) (1)
Repeated evolution of durophagy during ichthyosaur radiation after mass extinction indicated by hidden dentition (2020) (0)
A new specimen of Lariosaurus xingyiensis (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Ladinian (Middle Triassic) Zhuganpo Member, Falang Formation, Guizhou, China [X27162] Matrix 2 from Lin et al - 2017 - Modified by MorphoBank Curators in order to make the characters parse (2020) (0)
The Skull of the Varanidae (1980) (0)
A Long-Necked Reptile With Implication on Cervical Elongation of Archosauromorphs and Other Tetrapods (2022) (0)
The anatomy and relationships of Haasiophis terrasanctus, a fossil snake by well-developed hind limbs from the Mid-Cretaceous of the Middle East (2003) (0)
The Skull of the Lanthanotidae (1980) (0)
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1997) (0)
The Skull of the Helodermatidae (1980) (0)
Edinburgh Explorer The first Triassic vertebrate fossils from Myanmar: pachypleurosaurs (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) in a marine limestone (2019) (0)
The Ideological Instrumentalization of Biology (2016) (0)
The Skull of the Anniellidae (1980) (0)
The Skull of Anguinomorph lizards (1980) (0)
Corrigendum: A basal ichthyosauriform with a short snout from the Lower Triassic of China (2015) (0)
The Phylogeny and Classification of the Anguinomorpha (1980) (0)
The Problem of Change (2011) (0)
The Head Musculature of Heloderma (1980) (0)
Problems of Terminology and the General Structure of Lacertilian Jaw Musculature (1980) (0)
Early Triassic marine reptile representing the oldest record of unusually small eyes in reptiles indicating non-visual prey detection (2019) (0)
Patterns of Variation within Gerrhonotiform Lizards (1980) (0)
The first ever described dinosaur bone fragment in Robinet’s philosophy of nature (1768) (2021) (0)
The Turn against Haeckel (2016) (0)
The Skull of the Anguidae (1980) (0)
Separating sexual dimorphism from other morphological variation in a specimen complex of fossil marine reptiles (Reptilia, Ichthyosauriformes, Chaohusaurus) (2018) (0)
A new specimen of Lariosaurus xingyiensis (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Ladinian (Middle Triassic) Zhuganpo Member, Falang Formation, Guizhou, China [X27161] Matrix 1 from Lin et al - 2017 - Modified by MorphoBank Curators in order to make the characters parse (2020) (0)
Evolutionary Biology (1986) (0)
“Living fossils” and the mosaic evolution of characters (2023) (0)
Book Review:In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life Henry Gee (2000) (0)
The braincases of rnosasaurs the relationships of snakes and Varanus, and (2007) (0)
A Matter of (Natural) Laws (2011) (0)
The Head Musculature of the Anguinae (1980) (0)
Heloderma, a Primitive Platynotan Lizard (1980) (0)
Biological Individuals and Natural Kinds (2012) (0)
What Is the Story to be Told (2011) (0)
Morphology and Phylogeny (2020) (0)
Karl Beurlen (1901–1985), Nature Mysticism, and Aryan Paleontology (2011) (0)
[Limbs of tetrapods--an actual problem of evolution]. (1993) (0)
Cool fossils: Embryos in Deep Time by Marcelo Sánchez (2012) (0)
The Xenosauridae, a Diphyletic Family? (1980) (0)
The Head Masculature of the Diploglossinae (1980) (0)
Grundzüge: The Conceptual Foundations of Phylogenetic Systematics (2016) (0)
A New Specimen of Thalattosauroidea (Reptilia, Thalattosauriformes) from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Xingyi, Southernwestern China (2020) (0)
The Head Musculature of Varanus (1980) (0)
The Head Musculature of Xenosaurus grandis (1980) (0)
The Phylogenetic Position of Lanthanotus based on its Head Masculature (1980) (0)
Peer Review #1 of "A review of the carotid artery and facial nerve canal systems in extant turtles (v0.1)" (2021) (0)
The Skull of the Xenosauridae (1980) (0)
Stemming the Tide of Change (2011) (0)
The Procedure of Classification (1980) (0)
Varanus, an Advanced Platynotan (1980) (0)
Peer Review #2 of "Cranial osteology of the Early Cretaceous turtle Pleurosternon bullockii (Paracryptodira: Pleurosternidae) (v0.1)" (2020) (0)
Book Review:Folia Baeriana VI: Baer and Modern Biology. Toomas Sutt, Ain Heinaru, Vello Kaavere, Henni Kallak, Andres Piirsoo (1995) (0)
The Rise of Holism in German Biology (2016) (0)
Summary: A Hypothesis to test (1980) (0)
Against species essentialism (2011) (0)
A New Beginning: From Speciation to Phylogenetics (2016) (0)
The Head Musculature of the Gerrhonotinae (1980) (0)
The Head Musculature of Shinisaurus crocodilurus (1980) (0)
The Phylogeny of the Anguidae based on theirHead Musculature (1980) (0)
What is the significance of supraspecific taxa in macroevolutionary studies (1992) (0)
Ichthyosaur remains (Reptilia, Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Makhtesh Ramon, Negev, Israel (1998) (0)
The concept of the ‘organic individual’ in Haeckel’s writings (2019) (0)
The Phylogenetic Relationships of Lanthanotus: An Inquiry into the Fossil Record (1980) (0)
Linking the Facts: Tracing the Traces (2011) (0)
The Evolutionary Turn in Comparative Anatomy (2016) (0)
The Head Musculature of Lanthanotus borneensis (1980) (0)
Adolf Naef (1883–1949): On Foundational Concepts and Principles of Systematic Morphology (2012) (0)
Idealistic Morphology, Physics, and Phylogenetics (2011) (0)
The Evolution of the M. Intermandibularis Anterior in the Anguidae (1980) (0)
Changing World Views (2011) (0)
Evolutionary Biology (1988) (0)
The Origin and Early Evolution of Turtles Author ( s ) : (1999) (0)
Comparative and Experimental Analysis of Jaw Muscle Morphogenesis in Quail and Duck: A Basis for Understanding Developmental Mechanisms Underlying Evolutionary Change (2007) (0)
The “tertium comparationis” of competing evolutionary theories (2009) (0)
The Rise of German (“Aryan”) Biology (2016) (0)
Respectable Science: What Is It? (2011) (0)
A new specimen of Lariosaurus xingyiensis (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Ladinian (Middle Triassic) Zhuganpo Member, Falang Formation, Guizhou, China (project) (2020) (0)
The story of evolutionA Remarkable Journey. The Story of Evolution. R.Paul Thompson. 2015. Reaktion Books, London, 160 pp. ISBN: 978-1-78023-446-5. (2021) (0)
A new long-necked archosauromorph from the Guanling Formation (Anisian, Middle Triassic) of southwestern China and its implications for neck evolution in tanystropheids. (2023) (0)
A Triassic stem turtle with an edentulous beak (2018) (0)
OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY OsTEOLOgy Of GOBIDERMA PULCHRUM ( MONsTERsAURIA , LEpIDOsAURIA , REpTILIA ) (2011) (0)
A process ontology of organisms and its connection to biological individuality concepts (2022) (0)
Patterns of Variation within Diploglossine Lizards (1980) (0)
Thomas L. Hankins, Science and the Enlightenmentt Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/London 1985. VIII, 216 S., 30 Abb. £ 20.00. (1986) (0)
Outlook: The Origin of Snakes (1980) (0)
The Head Musculature of Anniella pulchra (1980) (0)
Emergency and Ecological Transition of the Mesozoic Marine Reptiles: Evidence from the Early Triassic Chaohu Fauna and the Middle Triassic Xingyi Fauna (2023) (0)

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