Although primarily a pre-eminent palaeoichthyologist, Arthur Smith Woodward's research
and publications ranged across all major tetrapod groups: nevertheless, his contributions in …

The origin of tetrapods is one of the longest standing (and still not fully resolved) fields in
vertebrate evolution (Thomson, 1993). The discovery of living lungfishes in the nineteenth …

This edited volume explores the various views on the origins of tetrapods—amphibians,
reptiles, birds, and mammals—views that agree or differ depending in part on how certain …

Abstract Alan Jack Charig was Curator of Fossil Amphibians, Reptiles and Birds at the
British Museum (Natural History) from 1961 to 1987. We here review his academic …

Fossil reptiles have been known from the Otter Sandstone Formation in south-east Devon
since the 1860s. Early finds were limited, but riley indicated relationships with Middle …

The Upper Carboniferous amphibians from Newsham in Northumberland constitute one of
only five large, compact tetrapod assemblages known from the Westphalian of Europe and …

The Visean stage of the Mississippian was a time of rapid tetrapod diversification which
marks the earliest appearance of temnospondyls, microsaurs and the limbless aïstopods …

New Zealand lacks a satisfactory record of its pre-Pleistocene terrestrial vertebrates.
However, the potential exists for their discovery because rocks of the right lithology and age …

New fossil material of the problematic reptile species Pachystropheus rhaeticus from the
uppermost Triassic (Rhaetian) of England, and re-examination of other specimens …

Remains of fossil tetrapods were first. recovered from Middle Triassic deposits in England in
1823. Buckiancl (183 7) noted that" part of a jaw and other bones ofa Saurian. found in the …