Skull Sutures and Cranial Mechanics in the Permian Reptile Captorhinus aguti and the Evolution of the Temporal Region in Early Amniotes

P Abel, Y Pommery, DP Ford, D Koyabu… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
While most early limbed vertebrates possessed a fully-roofed dermatocranium in their
temporal skull region, temporal fenestrae and excavations evolved independently at least …

Volume of the crocodilian brain and endocast during ontogeny

D Jirak, J Janacek - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Understanding complex situations and planning difficult actions require a brain of
appropriate size. Animal encephalisation provides an indirect information about these …

Description of a Cranial Endocast from the Fossil Mammal Vincelestes neuquenianus (Theriiformes) and its Relevance to the Evolution of Endocranial Characters in …

TE Macrini, GW Rougier, T Rowe - The Anatomical Record …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We generated a digital cranial endocast (infilling of the braincase) of Vincelestes
neuquenianus, a Cretaceous theriiform mammal from Argentina, to achieve two goals. First …

Virtual endocranial and inner ear endocasts of the Paleocene 'condylarth' Chriacus: new insight into the neurosensory system and evolution of early placental …

OC Bertrand, SL Shelley, JR Wible… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The end‐Cretaceous mass extinction allowed placental mammals to diversify ecologically
and taxonomically as they filled ecological niches once occupied by non‐avian dinosaurs …

Computed tomographic analysis of the cranium of the early Permian recumbirostran 'microsaur' Euryodus dalyae reveals new details of the braincase and mandible

BM Gee, JJ Bevitt, RR Reisz - Papers in Palaeontology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recumbirostran 'microsaurs' are a clade of Palaeozoic tetrapods that possess numerous
morphological adaptations for fossorial ecologies. Re‐study of many 'microsaurs' using …

Digital dissection of the head of the rock dove (Columba livia) using contrast-enhanced computed tomography

MEH Jones, DJ Button, PM Barrett, LB Porro - Zoological letters, 2019 - Springer
The rock dove (or common pigeon), Columba livia, is an important model organism in
biological studies, including research focusing on head muscle anatomy, feeding …

Endocranial and Inner Ear Morphology of Vintana Sertichi (Mammalia, Gondwanatheria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar

S Hoffmann, PM O'Connor, EC Kirk… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
We present the first digital reconstruction of the endocranial cavity and endosseous labyrinth
of the Late Cretaceous gondwanatherian mammal Vintana sertichi from the Maevarano …

CT-scan reveals new cranial features in Devonian chondrichthyan “Cladodus” wildungensis

JG Maisey - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
MATERIALS AND METHODS The braincase originally described by Gross(1937) was
borrowed from the Senckenberg Museum and subjected to high-resolution CT scanning in …

The internal cranial morphology of an armoured dinosaur Euoplocephalus corroborated by X‐ray computed tomographic reconstruction

T Miyashita, VM Arbour, LM Witmer… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Internal cranial anatomy is a challenging area to study in fossilized skulls because of small
sample sizes and varied post‐mortem preservational alterations. This difficulty has led to the …

The braincase anatomy of the late Cretaceous dinosaur Alioramus (Theropoda: Tyrannosauroidea)

GS Bever, SL Brusatte, TD Carr, X Xu… - Bulletin of the American …, 2013 - BioOne
ABSTRACT The late Cretaceous tyrannosaurid Alioramus altai is known from a single
specimen whose articulated braincase exhibits a nearly unique combination of …