At the feet of the dinosaurs: the early history and radiation of lizards
- S. Evans
- Geography, Environmental ScienceBiological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical…
- 1 November 2003
Current understanding of the first 150 million years of squamate evolution in the light of the new data and changing ideas is examined, predicting that squamates had evolved by at least the middle Triassic, and diversified into existing major lineages before the end of this period.
The skull of a new eosuchian reptile from the Lower Jurassic of South Wales
- S. Evans
- Environmental Science
- 1 November 1980
Comparison with earlier non-archosaurian diapsid reptiles indicates that Gephyrosaurus is a member of the Eosuchia, an infraclass of the subclass Diapsida, and was a small insectivore with large eyes and good hearing.
Integration of molecules and new fossils supports a Triassic origin for Lepidosauria (lizards, snakes, and tuatara)
- Marc E. H. Jones, C. Anderson, C. Hipsley, Johannes Müller, S. Evans, R. Schoch
- Geography, Environmental ScienceBMC Evolutionary Biology
- 25 September 2013
A Early/Middle Triassic date for the origin of Lepidosauria disagrees with previous estimates deep within the Permian and suggests the group evolved as part of the faunal recovery after the end-Permain mass extinction as the climate became more humid.
Fossil lizards from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India
A lizard assemblage from the Upper Member of the Kota Formation of peninsular India, usually considered to be of Early–Middle Jurassic age, is reported, providing evidence that iguanians had begun to diversify before the break-up of Pangea.
A giant frog with South American affinities from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar
- S. Evans, Marc E. H. Jones, D. Krause
- Biology, Environmental ScienceProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 26 February 2008
A recently discovered Late Cretaceous anuran is described that differs strikingly in size and morphology from extant Malagasy taxa and is unrelated either to them or to the predicted occupants of the Madagascar–Seychelles–India landmass when it separated from Africa 160 million years ago (Mya).
The vertebrate assemblage of Buenache de la Sierra (Upper Barremian of Serrania de Cuenca, Spain) with insights into its taphonomy and palaeoecology
- Á. Buscalioni, M. Fregenal, J. M. Lobón
- Environmental Science, Geography
- 1 August 2008
Rhynchocephalians (Diapsida: Lepidosauria) from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India
New sphenodontian material from the Jurassic Kota Formation of peninsular India indicates the presence of a primitive pleurodont lepidosauromorph similar to the basal rhynchocephaliansGephyrosaurus and Diphydontosaurus from Britain.
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