[HTML][HTML] Quantitative analysis of morphometric data of pre-modern birds: Phylogenetic versus ecological signal

A Bell, J Marugán-Lobón, G Navalón… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Birds are one of the most diverse clades of extant terrestrial vertebrates, a diversity that first
arose during the Mesozoic as a multitude of lineages of pre-neornithine (stem) birds …

Simplification as a trend in synapsid cranial evolution

CA Sidor - Evolution, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The prevalence and meaning of morphological trends in the fossil record have undergone
renewed scrutiny in recent years. Studies have typically focused on trends in body size …

[图书][B] Functional morphology in vertebrate paleontology

J Thomason - 1997 - books.google.com
How well can we reconstruct the appearance, movements and behavior of extinct
vertebrates from studies of their bones and other, more rarely preserved parts? Where is the …

Contrasting the underlying patterns of active trends in morphologic evolution

PJ Wagner - Evolution, 1996 - academic.oup.com
Gastropod evolution during the early Paleozoic featured active trends (ie, differential
replacement of morphologies) for at least three shell characters. Selective sorting, either of …

Phylogenomic reconstruction of Solenogastres (Mollusca, Aplacophora) informs hypotheses on body size evolution

MK Yap-Chiongco, FS Bergmeier, NG Roberts… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Body size is a fundamental characteristic of animals that impacts every aspect of their
biology from anatomical complexity to ecology. In Mollusca, Solenogastres has been …

Shape variation in the mole dentary (Talpidae: Mammalia)

E Barrow, N Macleod - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The clade Talpidae consists of specialized fossorial forms, shrew-like moles and semi-
aquatic desmans. As with all higher jawed vertebrates, different functional, phylogenetic and …

Tracking parallel adaptation of shell morphology through geological times in the land snail genus Pupilla (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Pupillidae)

M Haase, S Meng, M Horsák - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Changing environmental conditions force species either to disperse or to adapt locally either
genetically or via phenotypic plasticity. Although limits of plasticity can be experimentally …

The evolution of the bone-cracking model in carnivorans: cranial functional morphology of the Plio-Pleistocene cursorial hyaenid Chasmaporthetes lunensis …

ZJ Tseng, M Antón, MJ Salesa - Paleobiology, 2011 - cambridge.org
Fossil species of the family Hyaenidae represent a wide range of ecomorphological diversity
not observed in living representatives of this carnivoran group. Among them, the cursorial …

Craniodental and postcranial characters of non-avian Dinosauria often imply different trees

Y Li, M Ruta, MA Wills - Systematic biology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Despite the increasing importance of molecular sequence data, morphology still makes an
important contribution to resolving the phylogeny of many groups, and is the only source of …

[PDF][PDF] Rates of evolution in divergent species lineages as a test of character displacement in the fossil record: tooth size in Paleocene Plesiadapis (Mammalia …

PD Gingerich - Palaeovertebrata, 1996 - www-personal.umich.edu
Two species lineages of North American late Paleocene Plesiadapis exhibit a pattern of size
divergence from a common ancestral lineage. Time series of fossils in each of these …