The Origin, Early History and Diversification of Lepidosauromorph Reptiles (original) (raw)
References
Albino, AM (1996) The South American fossil Squamata (Reptilia: Lepidosauria). Münc Geowiss Abh, 30:185–202. Google Scholar
Alifanov, V (1993) Some peculiarities of the Cretaceous and Palaeogene lizard faunas of the Mongolian People’s Republic. Kaupia, 3:9–13. Google Scholar
Apesteguía, S (2005a) Post-Jurassic sphenodontids: identity of the last lineages. In: Kellner, AWA, Henriques, DDR, Rodrigues, T (eds) Boletim de Resumos, II Congresso Latino-Americano de Paleontologia de Vertebrados. Museu Nacional, Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Google Scholar
Apesteguía, S (2005b) A Late Campanian sphenodontid (Reptilia, Diapsida) from northern Patagonia. C R Palevol, 4:663–669. Google Scholar
Apesteguía, S, Agnolin, FC, Lio, GL (2005) An early Late Cretaceous lizard from Patagonia, Argentina. C R Palevol, 4:311–315. Google Scholar
Apesteguía, S, Novas, FE (2003) Large Cretaceous sphenodontian from Patagonia provides insight into lepidosaur evolution in Gondwana. Nature, 425:609–612. Google Scholar
Apesteguía, S, Rougier, GW (2007) A Late Campanian sphenodontid maxilla from Northern Patagonia. Am Mus Novit, 3581:1–11. Google Scholar
Apesteguía, S, Zaher, H (2006) A Cretaceous terrestrial limbed snake with robust hindlimbs and sacrum. Nature, 440:1037–1040. Google Scholar
Augé, M, Rage, J-C (2006) Herpetofauna from the upper Paleocene and lower Eocene of Morocco. Ann Paléontol, 92:235–253. Google Scholar
Bannock, CA, Whitaker, AH, Hickling, GJ (1999) Extreme longevity of the common gecko (Hoplodactylus maculatus) on Motunau Island, Canterbury, New Zealand. N Z J Ecol, 23:101–103. Google Scholar
Bartholomai, A (1979) New lizard-like reptiles from the Early Triassic of Queensland. Alcheringa, 3:225–234. Google Scholar
Benton, MJ (1985) Classification and phylogeny of the diapsid reptiles. Zool J Linn Soc, 84:97–164. Google Scholar
Benton, MJ, Donoghue, PCJ (2007) Paleontological evidence to date the tree of life. Mol Biol Evol, 24:26–53. Google Scholar
Benton, MJ, Tverdokhlebov, VP, Surkov, MV (2004) Ecosystem remodelling among vertebrates at the Permo-Triassic boundary in Russia. Nature, 432:97–100. Google Scholar
Borsuk-Białynicka, M, Cook, E, Evans, SE, Maryanska, T (1999) A microvertebrate assemblage from the Early Triassic of Poland. Acta Palaeontol Polonica, 44:167–188. Google Scholar
Buscalioni, AD, Fregenal-Martinez, M (2006) Archosaurian size bias in Jurassic and Cretaceous freshwater ecosystems. In: Barrett, PM, Evans, SE (eds) Proceedings of the 9th international symposium on Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems and biota, abstract and proceeding. Natural History Museum, London, UK. Google Scholar
Callison, G (1987) Fruita: a place for wee fossils. In: Averett, WR (ed) Paleontology and geology of the Dinosaur Triangle: guidebook for 1987 field trip. Museum of Western Colorado, Grand Junction, CO, pp. 91–96. Google Scholar
Carroll, RL (1975) Permo-Triassic ‘lizards’ from the Karroo. Palaeontol Afr, 18:71–87. Google Scholar
Carroll, RL (1982) A short-limbed lizard from the Lystrosaurus zone (Lower Triassic) of South Africa. J Paleontol, 56:183–190. Google Scholar
Carroll, RL, Wild, R (1994) Marine members of the Sphenodontia. In: Fraser, NC, Sues, H-D (eds) In the shadow of the dinosaurs: early Mesozoic tetrapods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA. Google Scholar
Chang, MM, Chen, PJ, Wang, YQ, Wang, Y (2003) The Jehol Biota: emergence of feathered dinosaurs and beaked birds. Shanghai Scientific and Technical Publishers, Shanghai, China. Google Scholar
Clark, JM, Hernandez, RR (1994) A new burrowing diapsid from the Jurassic La Boca Formation of Tamaulipas, Mexico. J Vertebr Paleontol, 14:180–195. Google Scholar
Clark, JM, Xing, X, Eberth, DA, Forster, CA, Malkus, M, Hemming, S, Hernandez, R (2006) The Middle-Late Jurassic terrestrial transition: new discoveries from the Shishugou Formation, Xinjiang, China. In: Barrett, PM, Evans, SE (eds) Proceedings of the 9th international symposium on Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems and biota. Natural History Museum, London, UK. Google Scholar
Cocude-Michel, M (1963) Les rhynchocephales et les sauriens des calcaires lithographiques (Jurassique superieur) d’Europe Occidentale. Nouv Arch Mus Hist Nat Lyon, 7:1–187. Google Scholar
Colbert, EH (1966) Icarosaurus, a gliding reptile from the Triassic of New Jersey. Am Mus Novit, 2246:1–23. Google Scholar
Colbert, EH (1970) The Triassic gliding reptile Icarosaurus. Bull Am Mus Nat Hist, 143:85–142. Google Scholar
Colbert, EH, Olsen, PE (2001) A new and unusual aquatic reptile from the Lockatong Formation of New Jersey (Late Triassic, Newark Supergroup). Am Mus Novit, 3334:1–24. Google Scholar
Conrad, J (2008) Phylogeny and systematics of Squamata (Reptilia) based on morphology. Bull Am Mus Nat Hist, 310:1–182. Google Scholar
Conrad, JL, Norell, MA (2006) High-resolution X-ray computed tomography of an Early Cretaceous gekkonomorph (Squamata) from Öösh (Ovorkhangai; Mongolia). Hist Biol, 18:405–431. Google Scholar
Cree, A (1994) Low annual reproductive output in female reptiles from New Zealand. N Z J Zool, 21:351–372. Google Scholar
Cree, A, Lyon, G, Cartland Shaw, L, Tyrrel, C (1999) Stable isotope ratios as indicators of marine versus terrestrial inputs to the diets of wild and captive tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus). N Z J Zool, 26:243–253. Google Scholar
Crook, IG (1975) The tuatara. In: Kuschel, G (ed) Biogeography and ecology in New Zealand. Junk, Hague, The Netherlands, pp. 331–352. Google Scholar
Datta, PM, Ray, S (2006) Earliest lizard from the Late Triassic (Carnian) of India. J Vertebr Paleontol, 26:795–800. Google Scholar
Dawbin, WH (1962) The tuatara in its natural habitat. Endeavour, 81:16–24. Google Scholar
de Braga, M, Rieppel, O (1997) Reptile phylogeny and the relationships of turtles. Zool J Linn Soc, 120:281–354. Google Scholar
Dilkes, DW (1998) The Early Triassic rhynchosaur Mesosuchus browni and the interrelationships of basal archosauromorph reptiles. Phil Trans R Soc, B, 353:501–541. Google Scholar
Dzik, J, Sulej, T (2007) A review of the early Late Triassic Krasiejow biota from Silesia, Poland. Acta Palaeontol Polonica, 64:3–27. Google Scholar
Estes, R, De Queiroz, K, Gauthier, J (1988) Phylogenetic relationships within Squamata. In: Estes, R, Pregill, G (eds) Phylogenetic relationships of the lizard families. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. Google Scholar
Evans, SE (1980) The skull of a new eosuchian reptile from the Lower Jurassic of South Wales. Zool J Linn Soc, 70:203–264. Google Scholar
Evans, SE (1982) Gliding reptiles of the Upper Permian. Zool J Linn Soc, 76:97–123. Google Scholar
Evans, SE (1984) The classification of the Lepidosauria. Zool J Linn Soc, 82:87–100. Google Scholar
Evans, SE (1988) The early history and relationships of the Diapsida. In: Benton, MJ (ed) The phylogeny and classification of the tetrapods. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Google Scholar
Evans, SE (1991) A new lizard-like reptile (Diapsida: Lepidosauromorpha) from the Middle Jurassic of Oxfordshire. Zool J Linn Soc, 103:391–412. Google Scholar
Evans, SE (1994) A new anguimorph lizard from the Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of England. Palaeontol, 37:33–49. Google Scholar
Evans, SE (1995) Lizards: evolution, early radiation and biogeography. In: Sun, A, Wang, Y (eds) Proceedings of the 6th symposium on Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems and Biota. Short pap, Ocean Press, Beijing, China. Google Scholar
Evans, SE (1998) Crown group lizards from the Middle Jurassic of Britain. Palaeontogr, A250:123–154. Google Scholar
Evans, SE (2001) The Early Triassic ‘lizard’ Colubrifer campi: a reassessment. Palaeontol, 44:1033–1041. Google Scholar
Evans, SE (2003) At the feet of the dinosaurs: the early history and radiation of lizards. Biol Rev, 78:513–551. Google Scholar
Evans, SE (2009) An early kuehneosaurid reptile (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Early Triassic of Poland. Palaeontol Polonica, 65:145–178. Google Scholar
Evans, SE, Borsuk-Białynicka, M (2009) A small lepidosauromorph reptile from the early Triassic of Poland. Palaeontol Polonica, 65:179–202. Google Scholar
Evans, SE, Haubold, H (1987) A review of the Upper Permian genera Coelurosauravus, Weigeltisaurus and Gracilisaurus (Reptilia: Diapsida). Zool J Linn Soc, 90:275–303. Google Scholar
Evans, SE, Manabe, M, Noro, M, Isaji, S, Yamaguchi, M (2006) A long-bodied aquatic varanoid lizard from the Early Cretaceous of Japan. Palaeontol, 49:1143–1165. Google Scholar
Evans, SE, Milner, AR (1994) Microvertebrate faunas from the Middle Jurassic of Britain. In: Fraser, NC, Sues, H-D (eds) In the shadow of the dinosaurs: early Mesozoic tetrapods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA. Google Scholar
Evans, SE, Milner, AR, Werner, C (1996) Sirenid salamanders and a gymnophionan from the Late Cretaceous of the Sudan. Palaeontol, 39:77–95. Google Scholar
Evans, SE, Prasad, GVR, Manhas, BK (2002) Fossil lizards from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India. J Vertebr Paleontol, 22:299–312. Google Scholar
Fastovsky, DE, Bowring, SA, Hermes, OD (1998) Radiometric age dates for the La Boca vertebrate assemblage (late Early Jurassic), Huizachal Canyon, Tamaulipas, Mexico: Avances en Investigación: Paleontología de Vertebrados, Inst Invest Ciencias Tierra. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo Spec Publ, 1:4–11. Google Scholar
Fedorov, PV, Nessov, LA (1992) A lizard from the boundary of the Middle and Late Jurassic of north-east Fergana. Bull St. Petersburg Univ, Geol Geogr, 3:9–14 [In Russian]. Google Scholar
Ferigolo, J (1999) South American first record of a sphenodontian (Lepidosauria, Rhynchocephalia) from Late Triassic–Early Jurassic of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. In: Leanza, HA (ed) Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystem (abstract). Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Google Scholar
Flynn, JJ, Fox, SR, Parrish, JM, Ranivoharimanana, L, Wyss, AR (2006) Assessing diversity and paleoecology of a Middle Jurassic microvertebrate assemblage from Madagascar. Natl Mus Nat Hist Sci Bull, 37:476–489. Google Scholar
Fraser, NC (1982) A new rhynchocephalian from the British Upper Triassic. Palaeontol, 25: 709–725. Google Scholar
Fraser, NC (1985) Vertebrate faunas from Mesozoic fissure deposits of South West Britain. Mod Geol, 9:273–300. Google Scholar
Fraser, NC (1988) The osteology and relationships of Clevosaurus (Reptilia, Sphenodontida). Phil Trans R Soc Lond, B312:125–178. Google Scholar
Fraser, NC (1994) Assemblages of small tetrapods from British Late Triassic fissure deposits. In: Fraser, NC, Sues, H-D (eds) In the shadow of the dinosaurs: early Mesozoic tetrapods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA. Google Scholar
Fraser, NC, Benton, MJ (1989) The Triassic reptiles Brachyrhinodon and Polysphenodon and the relationships of the sphenodontids. Zool J Linn Soc, 96:413–445. Google Scholar
Fraser, NC, Walkden, GM (1983) The ecology of a Late Triassic reptile assemblage from Glouchestershire, England. Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol, 42:341–365. Google Scholar
Gans, C (1983) Is Sphenodon punctatus a maladapted relic? In: Rhodin, AGJ, Miyata, K (eds) Advances in herpetology and evolutionary biology. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Google Scholar
Gao, KQ, Fox, RC (1996) Taxonomy and evolution of Late Cretaceous lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from western Canada. Bull Carnegie Mus Nat Hist, 33:1–107. Google Scholar
Gao, KQ, Hou, LH (1996) Systematics and diversity of squamates from the Upper Cretaceous Djadochta Formation, Bayan Mandahu, Gobi Desert, People’s Republic of China. Can J Earth Sci, 33:578–598. Google Scholar
Gao, KQ, Nessov, LA (1998) Early Cretaceous squamates from the Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan. N J Geol Paläontol Abh, 207:289–309. Google Scholar
Gao, KQ, Norell, MA (2000) Taxonomic composition and systematics of Late Cretaceous lizard assemblages from Ukhaa Tolgod and adjacent localities, Mongolian Gobi Desert. Bull Am Mus Nat Hist, 249:1–118. Google Scholar
Gardner, JD, Cifelli, RL (1999) A primitive snake from the Cretaceous of Utah. Sp Pap Palaeontol, 60:87–100. Google Scholar
Gauthier, J, Estes, R, de Queiroz, K (1988) A phylogenetic analysis of the Lepidosauromorpha. In: Estes, R and Pregill, G (eds) Phylogenetic relationships of the lizard families. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. Google Scholar
Gorr, TA, Mable, BK, Kleinschmidt, T (1998) Phylogenetic analysis of the reptile haemoglobins: trees, rates and divergences. J Mol Evol, 47:471–485. Google Scholar
Gradstein, FW, Ogg, JG (2004) Geologic timescale 2004 – why, how and where next. Lethaia, 37:175–181. Google Scholar
Günther, A (1867) Contribution to the anatomy of Hatteria (Rhynchocephalus, Owen). Phil Trans R Soc Lond, 157:1–34. Google Scholar
Harlow, HJ, Hillman, SS, Hoffman, M (1976) The effect of temperature on digestive efficiency in the herbivorous lizard, Dipsosaurus dorsalis. J Comp Physiol B: Biochem, Syst Environ Physiol, 111:1–6. Google Scholar
Heckert, AB (2004) Late Triassic microvertebrates from the lower Chinle Group (Otischalkian-Adamanian: Carnian) southwestern USA. Natl Mus Nat Hist Sci Bull, 27:1–170. Google Scholar
Hedges, SB, Poling, LL (1999) A molecular phylogeny of reptiles. Science, 283:998–1001. Google Scholar
Hill, RV (2005) Integration of morphological data sets for phylogenetic analysis of Amniota: the importance of integumentary characters and increased taxonomic sampling. Syst Biol, 54:530–547. Google Scholar
Holdaway, RN, Worthy, TH (1997) A reappraisal of the late Quaternary fossil vertebrates of Pyramid Valley Swamp, North Canterbury, New Zealand. N Z J Zool, 24:69–121. Google Scholar
Irmis, RB (2005) The vertebrate fauna of the upper Triassic Chinle formation in northern Arizona. Mesa Southwest Mus Bull, 6:63–88. Google Scholar
Jones, MEH (2004) Exploring rhynchocephalian skull morphology with morphometrics. J Vertebr Palaeontol, 24:76–77. Google Scholar
Jones, MEH (2006a) Skull evolution and functional morphology of Sphenodon and other Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida, Lepidosauria). Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of London, London, UK. Google Scholar
Jones, MEH (2006b) The Early Jurassic clevosaurs from China (Diapsida: Lepidosauria). Natl Mus Nat Hist Sci Bull, 37:548–562. Google Scholar
Jones, MEH (2006c) Tooth diversity and function in the Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida: Lepidosauria). In: Barrett, PM, Evans, SE (eds) Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystem and Biota. Natural History Museum, London, UK. Google Scholar
Jones, MEH (2008) Skull shape and feeding strategy in Sphenodon and other Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida: Lepidosauria). J Morphol, 269:945–966. Google Scholar
Jones, MEH, Tennyson, AJD, Evans, SE, Worthy, TH (2009) A sphenodontine (Rhynchocephalia) from the Miocene of New Zealand and palaeobiogeography of the tuatara (Sphenodon). Proc R Soc, B276:1385–1390. Google Scholar
Kaye, FT, Padian, K (1994) Microvertebrates from the Placerias Quarry: a window on the Late Triassic vertebrate diversity in the American South West. In: Fraser, NC, Sues, H-D (eds) In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: early Mesozoic tetrapods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA. Google Scholar
Krause, D, Evans, SE, Gao, K (2003) First definitive record of a Mesozoic lizard from Madagascar. J Vertebr Paleontol, 23:842–856. Google Scholar
Laurin, M (1991) The osteology of a Lower Permian eosuchian from Texas and a review of diapsid phylogeny. Zool J Linn Soc, 101:59–95. Google Scholar
Lee, MSY (1998) Convergent evolution and character correlation in burrowing reptiles: towards a resolution of squamate phylogeny. Biol J Linn Soc, 65:369–453. Google Scholar
Li, PP, Gao, KQ, Hou, LH, Xu, X (2007) A gliding lizard from the Early Cretaceous of China. Proc Natl Acad Sci, 104:5507–5509. Google Scholar
Lü, J-C, Ji, S-A, Dong, Z-M, Wu, X-C (2008) An Upper Cretaceous lizard with a lower temporal arcade. Naturewissenschaften, 95:663–669. Google Scholar
Luo, Z, Wu, X-C (1994) The small tetrapods of the Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan, China. In: Fraser, NC, Sues, H-D (eds) In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: early Mesozoic tetrapods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA. Google Scholar
Markwell, TJ (1998) Relationship between tuatara Sphenodon punctatus and fairy prion Pachyptila turtur densities in different habitats on Takapourewa (Stephens Island), Cook Strait, New Zealand. Mar Ornithol, 26:81–83. Google Scholar
Martin, T, Averianov, AO, Pfretzschner, H-U (2006) Palaeoecology of the Middle to Late Jurassic vertebrate assemblages from the Fergana and Jungar Basins (Central Asia). In: Barrett, PM, Evans, SE (eds) Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Abstract & Proceeding. Natural History Museum, London, UK. Google Scholar
Martin, T, Krebs, B (2000) Guimarota, a Jurassic ecosystem. Dr Friedrich Pfeil, München, Germany, 155 pp. Google Scholar
Metzger, K (2002) Cranial kinesis in lepidosaurs: skulls in motion. In: Aerts, P, D’Août, K, Herrel, A, van Damme, R (eds) Topics in functional and ecological vertebrate morphology. Shaker publishing, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Google Scholar
Mo, J, Xu, X, Evans, SE (2009) The evolution of the lepidosaurian lower temporal bar: new perspectives from the Late Cretaceous of South China. Proc R Soc B, Spec Vol. Chinese Fossils, 277:331–336. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0030). Google Scholar
Moazen, M, Curtis, N, O’Higgins, P, Evans, SE, Fagan, M (2009) The function of the lower temporal bar in lepidosaurian evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci, 20:8273–8277. Google Scholar
Modesto, SP, Reisz, RR (2002) An enigmatic new diapsid reptile from the Upper Permian of Eastern Europe. J Vertebr Paleontol, 22:851–855. Google Scholar
Moore, JA, Godfrey, SS (2006) Sphenodon punctatus (common tuatara). Opportunistic predation. Herpetol Rev, 37:81–82. Google Scholar
Müller, J (2004) The relationships among diapsid reptiles and the influence of taxon selection. In: Arratia, G, Wilson, MVH, Cloutier, R (eds) Recent advances in the origin and early radiation of vertebrates. Dr Friedrich Pfeil, München, Germany. Google Scholar
Murry, PA (1987) New reptiles from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation of Arizona. J Paleontol, 61:773–786. Google Scholar
Nessov, LA (1988) Late Mesozoic amphibians and lizards of Soviet Middle Asia. Acta Zool Cracoviensia, 31:475–486. Google Scholar
Nydam, RL, Eaton, JG, Sankey, J (2007) New taxa of transversely-toothed lizards (Squamata: Scincomorpha) and new information on the evolutionary history of ‘teiids’. J Paleontol, 81:538–549. Google Scholar
Parrington, FR (1935) On Prolacerta broomi gen. et sp. n., and the origin of lizards. Ann Mag Nat Hist, 16:197–205. Google Scholar
Reisz, RR, Müller, J (2004) Molecular timescales and the fossil record: a paleontological perspective. Trends Genet, 20:237–241. Google Scholar
Renesto, S, Posenato, R (2003) A new lepidosauromorph reptile from the Middle Triassic of the Dolomites (Northern Italy). Riv Ital Paleont Strat, 109:463–474. Google Scholar
Rest, JS, Ast, JC, Austin, CC, Waddell, PJ, Tibbettes, EA, Hay, JM, Mindell, DP (2003) Molecular systematics of primary reptilian lineages and the tuatara mitochondrial genome. Mol Phylogeny Evol, 29:289–297. Google Scholar
Reynoso, VH (1996) A Middle Jurassic _Sphenodon_-like sphenodontian (Diapsida: Lepidosauria) from Huizachal Canyon, Tamaulipas, Mexico. J Vertebr Paleontol, 16:210–221. Google Scholar
Reynoso, VH (1997) A ‘beaded’ sphenodontian (Diapsida: Lepidosauria) from the Early Cretaceous of central Mexico. J Vertebr Paleontol, 17:52–59. Google Scholar
Reynoso, VH (2000) An unusual aquatic sphenodontian (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Tlayua Formation (Albian), Central México. J Vertebr Paleontol, 74:133–148. Google Scholar
Reynoso, VH (2005) Possible evidence of a venom apparatus in a Middle Jurassic sphenodontian from the Huizachal red beds of Tamaulipas, México. J Vertebr Paleontol, 25:646–654. Google Scholar
Reynoso, VH, Clark, JM (1998) A dwarf sphenodontian from the Jurassic La Boca Formation of Tamaulipas, Mexico. J Vertebr Paleontol, 18:333–339. Google Scholar
Robinson, PL (1962) Gliding lizards from the Upper Keuper of Great Britain. Proc Geol Soc Lond, 1601:137–146. Google Scholar
Robinson, PL (1967a) Triassic vertebrates from upland and lowland. Sci Cult, 33:169–173. Google Scholar
Robinson, PL (1967b) The evolution of the Lacertilia. Coll Int CNRS, 163:395–407. Google Scholar
Robinson, PL (1976) How Sphenodon and Uromastix grow their teeth and use them. In: Bellairs, Ad’A, Cox, CB (eds) Morphology and biology of the reptiles. Academic Press, London, UK. Google Scholar
Romer, AS (1956) Osteology of the reptiles. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. Google Scholar
Roopnarine, PD, Angielczyk, KD, Wang, SC, Hertog, R (2007) Trophic network models explain instability of Early Triassic terrestrial communities. Proc R Soc, B274:2077–2086. Google Scholar
Russmusen, TE, Callison, G (1981) A new herbivorous sphenodontid (Rhynchocephalia: Reptilia) from the Jurassic of Colorado. J Paleontol, 55:1109–1116. Google Scholar
Sanchez-Martinez, PM, Ramirez-Pinilla, MP, Miranda-Esquivel, DR (2007) Comparative histology of the vaginal-cloacal region in Squamata and its phylogenetic implications. Acta Zool, 88:289–307. Google Scholar
Sanders, KL, Lee, MSY (2007) Evaluating molecular clock calibrations using Bayesian analyses with soft and hard bounds. Biol Lett, 3:275–279. Google Scholar
Schwenk, K (2000) Feeding: form, function, and evolution in tetrapod vertebrates. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. Google Scholar
Shubin, NH, Olsen, PE, Sues, H-D (1994) Early Jurassic small tetrapods from the McCoy Brook Formation of Nova Scotia, Canada. In: Fraser, NC, Sues, H-D (eds) In the shadow of the dinosaurs: early Mesozoic tetrapods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA. Google Scholar
Sigogneau-Russell, D, Evans, SE, Levine, J, Russell, D (1998) An Early Cretaceous small vertebrate assemblage from the Early Cretaceous of Morocco. N M Mus Nat Hist Sci, 14:177–182. Google Scholar
Smith, R, Botha, J (2005) The recovery of terrestrial vertebrate diversity in the South African Karoo Basin after the end-Permian extinction. C R Palevol, 4:623–636. Google Scholar
Spencer, PS, Storrs, GW (2002) A re-evaluation of small tetrapods from the Middle Triassic Otter Sandstone Formation of Devon, England. Palaeontol, 45:447–467. Google Scholar
Storrs, GW, Gower, DJ (1993) The earliest possible choristodere (Diapsida) and gaps in the fossil record of semi-aquatic reptiles. J Geol Soc, 150:1103–1107. Google Scholar
Sues, H-D, Baird, D (1993) A skull of a sphenodontian lepidosaur from the New Haven Arkose (Upper Triassic, Norian) of Connecticut. J Vertebr Paleontol, 13:370–372. Google Scholar
Sues, H-D, Clark, JM, Jenkins, FA, Jr (1994) A review of the Early Jurassic tetrapods from the Glen Canyon Group of the American Southwest. In: Fraser, NC, Sues, H-D (eds) In the shadow of the dinosaurs: early Mesozoic tetrapods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA. Google Scholar
Sun, AL, Li, JL, Ye, XK, Dong, ZM, Hou, LH (1992) The Chinese fossil reptiles and their kins. Science Press, Beijing, China. Google Scholar
Tatarinov, LP (1978) Triassic prolacertilians of the USSR. Paleontol J, 4:505–514. Google Scholar
Thompson, MB, Daugherty, CH (1998) Metabolism of tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus. Comp Biochem Physiol, 119A:519–522. Google Scholar
Throckmorton, GS, Hopson, JA, Parks, P (1981) A redescription of Toxolophosaurus cloudi Olson, a Lower Cretaceous herbivorous sphenodontian reptile. J Paleontol, 55:586–597. Google Scholar
Townsend, TM, Larson, A, Louis, E, Macey, JR (2004) Molecular phylogenetics of Squamata: the position of snakes, amphisbaenians, and dibamids, and the root of the squamate tree. Syst Biol, 53:735–757. Google Scholar
Tracy, CR, Flack, KM, Zimmerman, LC, Espinoza, RE, Tracy, CR (2005) Herbivory imposes constraints on voluntary hypothermia in lizards. Copeia, 2005:12–19. Google Scholar
Troyer, K (1987) Small differences in daytime body temperature affect digestion of natural food in a herbivorous lizard (Iguana iguana). Comp Biochem Physiol, 87:623–626. Google Scholar
van Marken Lichtenbelt, WD (1992) Digestion in an ectothermic herbivore, the green iguana (Iguana iguana) – effect of food composition and body temperature. Physiol Zool, 65:649–673. Google Scholar
Vidal, N, Hedges, SB (2005) The phylogeny of squamate reptiles (lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians) inferred from nine nuclear protein-coding genes. C R Biol, 328:1000–1008. Google Scholar
Walls, GY (1981) Feeding ecology of the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) on Stephen Island, Cook Strait. N Z J Ecol, 4:89–97. Google Scholar
Watson, DMS (1914) Pleurosaurus and the homologies of the bones of the temporal region of the lizard’s skull. Ann Mag Nat Hist, 14:84–95. Google Scholar
Werner, C, Rage, J-C (1994) Mid-Cretaceous snakes from Sudan. A preliminary report on an unexpectedly diverse snake fauna. C R Acad Sci, 319:247–252. Google Scholar
Whiteside, DI (1986) The head skeleton of the Rhaetian sphenodontid Diphydontosaurus avonis gen. et sp. nov., and the modernising of a living fossil. Phil Trans R Soc Lond, B312:379–430. Google Scholar
Wilkinson, M, Benton, MJ (1996) Sphenodontid phylogeny and the problems of multiple trees. Phil Trans R Soc Lond, 351:1–16. Google Scholar
Worthy, TH (1998) Quaternary fossil faunas of Otago, South Island, New Zealand. J R Soc N Z, 28:421–521. Google Scholar
Worthy, TH, Grant-Mackie, JA (2003) Late-Pleistocene avifaunas from Cape Wanbrow, Otago, South Island, New Zealand. J R Soc N Z, 33:427–485. Google Scholar
Wu, X-C (2003) Functional morphology of the temporal region in the Rhynchocephalia. Can J Earth Sci, 40:589–607. Google Scholar
Yadagiri, P (1986) Lower Jurassic lower vertebrates from Kota Formation, Pranhita-Godavari Valley, India. J Palaeontol Soc India, 31:89–96. Google Scholar
Zug, GR, Vitt, LJ, Caldwell, JP (2001) Herpetology, 2nd edn. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. Google Scholar