Assembling the squamate tree of life: perspectives from the phenotype and the fossil record

JA Gauthier, M Kearney, JA Maisano, O Rieppel… - Bulletin of the Peabody …, 2012 - BioOne
We assembled a dataset of 192 carefully selected species—51 extinct and 141 extant—and
976 apomorphies distributed among 610 phenotypic characters to investigate the phylogeny …

[HTML][HTML] It is time for a new classification of anoles (Squamata: Dactyloidae)

KE Nicholson, BI Crother, C Guyer, JM Savage - Zootaxa, 2012 - biotaxa.org
In this essay, we review concepts of taxonomic categories of anoles, reanalyze accumulated
characteristics of these lizards, use these analyses to summarize the topology of the …

[图书][B] Phylonyms: a companion to the PhyloCode

K de Queiroz, P Cantino, J Gauthier - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and
recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …

Covert biases, circularity, and apomorphies: a critical look at the North American Quaternary Herpetofaunal Stability Hypothesis

CJ Bell, JA Gauthier, GS Bever - Quaternary International, 2010 - Elsevier
The North American Pleistocene Herpetofaunal Stability Hypothesis was established in the
1980s based on summary reviews of primary descriptive paleoherpetological literature. The …

Fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Neogene locality of Maramena (Greece), the most diverse European herpetofauna at the Miocene/Pliocene transition …

G Georgalis, A Villa, M Ivanov, D Vasilyan… - Palaeontologia …, 2019 - iris.unito.it
We herein describe the fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Neogene (latest Miocene or
earliest Pliocene; MN 13/14) locality of Maramena, in northern Greece. The herpetofauna is …

A new lizard assemblage from the earliest Eocene (zone Wa0) of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA: biogeography during the warmest interval of the Cenozoic

KT Smith - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Despite two decades of research into the earliest Eocène fossils of the Rocky Mountain
interior of North America, almost nothing is known of the squamates (lizards and snakes) …

Squamate reptiles from the middle Eocene of Lissieu (France). A landmark in the middle Eocene of Europe

JC Rage, M Augé - Geobios, 2010 - Elsevier
In Europe, faunas of squamates (lizards and snakes) from the middle Eocene are very
poorly known, with the exception of those from the level MP 16 (latest middle Eocene). From …

Eocene lizards of the clade Geiseltaliellus from Messel and Geiseltal, Germany, and the early radiation of Iguanidae (Reptilia: Squamata)

KT Smith - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2009 - BioOne
abstract The historical biogeography of the lizard clade Iguanidae is complicated. In addition
to difficulties within the New World, where most of the more than 900 living species are …

Phylogenetic relationships of Amazonian anole lizards (Dactyloa): taxonomic implications, new insights about phenotypic evolution and the timing of diversification

I Prates, MT Rodrigues, PR Melo-Sampaio… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2015 - Elsevier
The ecology and evolution of Caribbean anoles are well described, yet little is known about
mainland anole species. Lack of phylogenetic information limits our knowledge about …

The first potential cordyliform (Squamata, Scincoidea) from India (uppermost Cretaceous–lowermost Paleocene): An African lizard clade brings possible implications …

R Yadav, S Bajpai, AS Maurya, A Čerňanský - Cretaceous Research, 2023 - Elsevier
We here report on a new lizard from the Deccan intertrappean strata (uppermost Cretaceous–
lowermost Paleocene) of the recently discovered Kesavi locality, central India. The material …