The origin of squamates revealed by a Middle Triassic lizard from the Italian Alps TR Simões, MW Caldwell, M Tałanda, M Bernardi, A Palci, O Vernygora, ... Nature 557 (7707), 706-709, 2018 | 187 | 2018 |
Giant taxon‐character matrices: quality of character constructions remains critical regardless of size TR Simões, MW Caldwell, A Palci, RL Nydam Cladistics 33 (2), 198-219, 2017 | 97 | 2017 |
A stem acrodontan lizard in the Cretaceous of Brazil revises early lizard evolution in Gondwana TR Simões, E Wilner, MW Caldwell, LC Weinschütz, AWA Kellner Nature Communications 6 (1), 1-8, 2015 | 79 | 2015 |
Megaevolutionary dynamics and the timing of evolutionary innovation in reptiles TR Simões, O Vernygora, MW Caldwell, SE Pierce Nature Communications 11 (1), 3322, 2020 | 73 | 2020 |
A mid-Cretaceous embryonic-to-neonate snake in amber from Myanmar L Xing, MW Caldwell, R Chen, RL Nydam, A Palci, TR Simões, ... Science Advances 4 (7), eaat5042, 2018 | 56 | 2018 |
New skulls and skeletons of the Cretaceous legged snake Najash, and the evolution of the modern snake body plan FF Garberoglio, S Apesteguía, TR Simões, A Palci, RO Gómez, ... Science advances 5 (11), eaax5833, 2019 | 48 | 2019 |
Sphenodontian phylogeny and the impact of model choice in Bayesian morphological clock estimates of divergence times and evolutionary rates TR Simões, MW Caldwell, SE Pierce BMC biology 18 (1), 1-30, 2020 | 45 | 2020 |
THE SQUAMATE TREE OF LIFE TR Simões, RA Pyron Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 163 (2), 47-95, 2021 | 44 | 2021 |
Mosasauroid phylogeny under multiple phylogenetic methods provides new insights on the evolution of aquatic adaptations in the group TR Simões, O Vernygora, I Paparella, P Jimenez-Huidobro, MW Caldwell PloS one 12 (5), e0176773, 2017 | 42 | 2017 |
A new Early Cretaceous lizard species from Brazil, and the phylogenetic position of the oldest known South American squamates TR Simões, MW Caldwell, AWA Kellner Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13 (7), 601-614, 2015 | 39 | 2015 |
Osteology, phylogeny, and functional morphology of two Jurassic lizard species and the early evolution of scansoriality in geckoes TR Simões, MW Caldwell, RL Nydam, P Jiménez-Huidobro Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 180 (1), 216-241, 2017 | 36 | 2017 |
A new clevosaurid from the Triassic (Carnian) of Brazil and the rise of sphenodontians in Gondwana AS Hsiou, RL Nydam, TR Simões, FA Pretto, S Onary, AG Martinelli, ... Scientific Reports 9 (1), 11821, 2019 | 32 | 2019 |
The first iguanian lizard from the Mesozoic of Africa S Apesteguía, JD Daza, TR Simões, JC Rage Royal Society open science 3 (9), 160462, 2016 | 31 | 2016 |
Successive climate crises in the deep past drove the early evolution and radiation of reptiles TR Simões, CF Kammerer, MW Caldwell, SE Pierce Science Advances 8 (33), eabq1898, 2022 | 30 | 2022 |
A tiny new Middle Triassic stem-lepidosauromorph from Germany: implications for the early evolution of lepidosauromorphs and the Vellberg fauna G Sobral, TR Simões, RR Schoch Scientific Reports 10 (1), 2273, 2020 | 29 | 2020 |
Discovery of the oldest South American fossil lizard illustrates the cosmopolitanism of early South American squamates JS Bittencourt, TR Simões, MW Caldwell, MC Langer Communications Biology 3 (1), 201, 2020 | 26 | 2020 |
Sustained high rates of morphological evolution during the rise of tetrapods TR Simões, SE Pierce Nature Ecology & Evolution 5 (10), 1403-1414, 2021 | 25 | 2021 |
Redescription of Tijubina pontei, an Early Cretaceous lizard (Reptilia; Squamata) from the Crato Formation of Brazil TR Simões Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 84 (1), 79-94, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
The oldest plesiosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from Antarctica AWA Kellner, TR Simoes, D Riff, O Grillo, P Romano, H de Paula, ... Polar Research 30 (1), 7265, 2011 | 23 | 2011 |
Evaluating the performance of probabilistic algorithms for phylogenetic analysis of big morphological datasets: a simulation study OV Vernygora, TR Simões, EO Campbell Systematic biology 69 (6), 1088-1105, 2020 | 22 | 2020 |