What's in an outgroup? The impact of outgroup choice on the phylogenetic position of Thalattosuchia (Crocodylomorpha) and the origin of Crocodyliformes

EW Wilberg - Systematic Biology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Outgroup sampling is a central issue in phylogenetic analysis. However, good justification is
rarely given for outgroup selection in published analyses. Recent advances in our …

[HTML][HTML] The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution

MM Johnson, MT Young, SL Brusatte - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Teleosauroidea was a clade of ancient crocodylomorphs that were a key element of coastal
marine environments during the Jurassic. Despite a 300-year research history and a recent …

Thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs from European Russia, and new insights into metriorhynchid tooth serration evolution and their palaeolatitudinal distribution

MT Young, NG Zverkov, MS Arkhangelsky, AP Ippolitov… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Abstract From the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs
inhabited marine ecosystems across the European archipelago. Unfortunately, European …

The first definitive Middle Jurassic atoposaurid (Crocodylomorpha, Neosuchia), and a discussion on the genus Theriosuchus

MT Young, JP Tennant, SL Brusatte… - Zoological journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Atoposaurids were a clade of semiaquatic crocodyliforms known from the Late Jurassic to
the latest Cretaceous. Tentative remains from Europe, Morocco, and Madagascar may …

Filling the Corallian gap: new information on Late Jurassic marine reptile faunas from England

D Foffa, M Young, S Brusatte - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2018 - research.ed.ac.uk
Two of the best known Mesozoic marine reptile assemblages can be found in units
deposited in the Jurassic Sub-Boreal Seaway of the UK: the late Middle Jurassic Oxford …

The collection of type fossils of the Natural Science Museum of the University of Zaragoza (Spain)

JI Canudo - Geoheritage, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The Natural Science Museum of the University of Zaragoza houses one of the most
important collections in Spain of fossils published in scientific journals. It is a new museum …

Virtual reconstruction of the endocranial anatomy of the early Jurassic marine crocodylomorph Pelagosaurus typus (Thalattosuchia)

SE Pierce, M Williams, RBJ Benson - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
Thalattosuchians were highly specialised aquatic archosaurs of the Jurassic and Early
Cretaceous, and represent a peak of aquatic adaptation among crocodylomorphs. Relatively …

The history, systematics, and nomenclature of Thalattosuchia (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha)

MT Young, EW Wilberg, MM Johnson… - Zoological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The use of more than one nomenclatural code is becoming increasingly common in some
biological sub-disciplines. To minimize nomenclatural instability, we have decided to …

The evolution of the meatal chamber in crocodyliforms

FC Montefeltro, DV Andrade… - Journal of Anatomy, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The unique outer ear of crocodylians consists of a large meatal chamber (MC) concealed by
a pair of muscular earlids that shape a large part of the animal's head. This chamber is …

[HTML][HTML] Braincase and endocranial anatomy of two thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs and their relevance in understanding their adaptations to the marine …

Y Herrera, JM Leardi, MS Fernández - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Thalattosuchians are a group of Mesozoic crocodylomorphs known from aquatic deposits of
the Early Jurassic–Early Cretaceous that comprises two main lineages of almost exclusively …