Lab Publication List
Pre Zürich
Forasiepi A, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Goin FJ, Takai M, Shigehara N, Kay RF (2006) A new species of Hathliacynidae (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) from the Middle Miocene of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26: 670-684.
Giannini N, Goswami A, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2006) Development of integumentary structures in Rousettus amplexicaudatus (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) during late-embryonic and fetal stages. Journal of Mammalogy 87: 993-1001.
Head JJ, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera O (2006) Past colonization of South America by trionychid turtles: Fossil evidence from the Neogene of Margarita Island, Venezuela. Journal of Herpetology 40: 378-381.
Head JJ, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA (2006) Fossil snakes from the Neogene of Venezuela (Falcón State). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4: 233-240.
Horovitz, I., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Martin, T., Aguilera O. A (2006) The fossil record of Phoberomys pattersoni Mones 1980 (Mammalia, Rodentia) from Urumaco (Late Miocene, Venezuela), with an analysis of its phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 4(3): 293-306.
Nummela S, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2006) Scaling of the marsupial middle ear and its functional significance. Journal of Zoology, London 270: 256-267.
Sánchez-Villagra MR (ed, 2006) New Vertebrate Finds from the Neogene of Venezuela. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4: 211-306.
Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA (2006) Neogene Vertebrates from Urumaco, Falcón State, Venezuela: Diversity and Significance. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4: 213-220.
Sánchez-Villagra MR, Horovitz I, Motokawa M (2006) A comprehensive morphological analysis of talpid moles (Mammalia) phylogenetic relationships. Cladistics 22: 59-88.
Sánchez-Villagra MR, Maier W (2006) Homologies of the mammalian shoulder girdle - a response to Matsuoka et al. Evolution & Development 8: 113-115.
Sánchez-Villagra MR, Winkler JD (2006) Cranial variation in Bairdemys turtles (Podocnemididae: Miocene of the Caribbean region) and description of new material from Urumaco, Venezuela. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4: 241-253.
Weisbecker V, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2006) Carpal evolution in diprotodontian marsupials. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 146: 369-384.
Winkler JD, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2006) A nesting site and egg morphology of a Miocene turtle from Urumaco, Venezuela: direct evidence of marine adaptations in a pelomedusoides. Palaeontology 49: 641-646.
Sánchez-Villagra, MR, Horovitz, I, Motokawa, M (2006) A comprehensive morphological analysis of talpid moles (Mammalia) phylogenetic relationships. Cladistics 22:59-88.
Sánchez-Villagra, MR and Maier, W (2006) Homologies of the mammalian shoulder girdle - a response to Matsuoka et al. Evolution and Development 8: 113-115.
Giannini N, Goswami A, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2006) Development of integumentary structures in Rousettus amplexicaudatus (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) during late-embryonic and fetal stages. Journal of Mammalogy. 87(5): 993-1001.
Head, JJ, Sánchez-Villagra, MR, Aguilera O (2006) Past colonization of South America by trionychid turtles: Fossil evidence from the Neogene of Margarita Island, Venezuela. Journal of Herpetology 40: 378-381.
Forasiepi A, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Goin FJ, Takai M, Shigehara, N, Kay RF (2006) A new species of Hathliacynidae (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) from the Middle Miocene of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26: 670-684.
Nummela S., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2006. Scaling of the marsupial middle ear and its functional significance. Journal of Zoology, London. 270: 256-267
Head, J. J., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Aguilera O. A. 2006. Fossil snakes from the Neogene of Venezuela (Falcón State). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4(3): 233-240.
Horovitz, I., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Martin, T., Aguilera O. A. 2006. The fossil record of Phoberomys pattersoni Mones 1980 (Mammalia, Rodentia) from Urumaco (Late Miocene, Venezuela), with an analysis of its phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 4(3): 293-306.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Winkler, J. D. 2006. Cranial variation in Bairdemys turtles (Podocnemididae: Miocene of the Caribbean region) and description of new material from Urumaco, Venezuela. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 4(3): 241-253.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Aguilera O. A. 2006. Neogene Vertebrates from Urumaco, Falcón State, Venezuela: Diversity and Significance. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 4(3):213-220.
Winkler, J. D., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2006. A nesting site and egg morphology of a Miocene turtle from Urumaco, Venezuela: direct evidence of marine adaptations in a pelomedusoides . Palaeontology. 49:641-646.
Weisbecker V., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2006. Carpal evolution in diprotodontian marsupials. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 146: 369-384.
Haas, A., C. Mitgutsch, S. Hertwig, A. Dawood, and A. Channing (2006). The tadpole of Tomopterna luganga, Channing, Moyer & Dawood, 2004 (Anura: Ranidae). Salamandra 42, 1-12.
Asher, R. J., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2005. Locking yourself out: diversity among dentally zalambdodont therian mammals. In: Polly, P. D., Springer, M. S., and Luo, Z.-X. (eds.) Festschrift Prof. W. Clemens. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 12: 267-284.
Schmelzle T., Nummela S., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2005. Phylogenetic Transformations of the Ear Ossicles in Marsupial Mammals, with Special Reference to Diprotodontians: A Character Analysis. Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 74: 189-200.
Sánchez-Villagra M. R., Menke, P. R. 2005. The mole's thumb - evolution of the hand skeleton in talpids (Mammalia). Zoology. 108:3-12.
Sánchez-Villagra M. R., Menke, P. R., Geisler, J. H. 2004. Patterns of evolutionary transformation in the humerus of moles (Talpidae, Mammalia): a character analysis. Mammal Study 29: 163-170.
Asher, R. J., Horovitz, I., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2004. First Combined Cladistic Analysis of Marsupial Mammal Phylogenetic Relationships. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 33: 240-250.
Prochel J, Vogel P., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2004. Hand development and sequence of ossification in the forelimb of the European shrew Crocidura russula (Soricidae) and comparisons across therian mammals. Journal of Anatomy 205: 99-111.
Crumly, C. C., Sánchez-Villagra M. R. 2004. Patterns of variation in the phalangeal formulae of land tortoises (Testudinidae): developmental constraint imposed by size and phylogenetic history. Journal of Experimental Zoology: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 302B: 134-146.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Asher, R. J., Rincón, A. D., Carlini, A. A., Meylan, P., Purdy, R. W. 2004. New faunal reports for the Cerro La Cruz locality (Lower Miocene), north-western Venezuela. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR and Clack JA (eds). Fossils of the Miocene Castillo Formation, Venezuela: Contributions on Neotropical Palaeontology. Special Papers in Palaeontology 71: 105-112.
Weston E. M., Madden R. H. and Sánchez-Villagra M. R. 2004. Early Miocene Astrapotheres (Mammalia) from Northern South America. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR and Clack JA (eds). Fossils of the Castillo Formation, Venezuela: Contributions in Neotropical Palaeontology. Special Papers in Palaeontology 71: 81-97.
Scheyer, T. M., and P. M. Sander. 2004. Histology of ankylosaur osteoderms: implications for systematics and function. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(4):874-893.
Sánchez-Villagra M. R., Aguilera O. A. and Horovitz, I. 2003. The anatomy of the world's largest extinct rodent. Science , 301: 1708-1710.
Gemballa, S., Weitbrecht, G. W., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2003. 3-D reconstruction and microanatomy of the myosepta in the lancelet Branchiostoma lanceolatum (Pallas, 1774). Zoomorphology 122: 169-179.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and Döttling, M. 2003. Carpal ontogeny in Dasyurus viverrinus and carpal evolution in the Dasyuromorpha among the Marsupialia. Mammalian Biology. 68: 329-340.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and Maier, W. 2003. Ontogenesis of the scapula in marsupial mammals, with special emphasis on perinatal stages of didelphids and remarks on the origin of the therian scapula. Journal of Morphology 258: 115-129.
Horovitz I. and Sánchez-Villagra M. R. 2003. A comprehensive analysis of marsupial higher-level relationships. Cladistics 19: 181-212.
Goin, F. J., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Kay, R. F., Anaya-Daza, F., and Takai, M. 2003. New Paleothentid Marsupial from the Middle Miocene of Bolivia. Palaeontology 46: 307-315.
Prochel J. and Sánchez-Villagra M. R. 2003. Carpal ontogeny in Monodelphis domestica and Caluromys philander (Didelphidae, Marsupialia). Zoology 106: 73-84.
Mitgutsch, C. (2003). On Carl Gegenbaur's theory on head metamerism and the selection of taxa for comparisons. Theor Biosci 122, 204-229.
Großmann, M., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and Maier, W. 2002. On the development of the shoulder girdle in Crocidura russula (Soricidae) and other placental mammals: evolutionary and functional aspects. Journal of Anatomy 201: 371-381.
Gaffney, E. S., DeBlieux, D., Simons, E., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., and Meylan, P. A. 2002. Redescription of the skull of Dacquemys, Williams 1954, a podocnemidid side-necked turtle from the Late Eocene of Egypt. American Museum Novitates 3372:1-16.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and Sultan, F. 2002. The cerebellum at birth in therian mammals, with special reference to rodents. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 59:101-113.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and J. R. Wible. 2002. Patterns of evolutionary transformation in the petrosal bone and some basicranial features in marsupial mammals, with special reference to didelphids. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 40:26-45.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and Maier, W. 2002. Ontogenetic data and the evolutionary origin of the mammalian scapula. Naturwissenschaften 89:459-461.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., S. Gemballa, S. Nummela, K. K. Smith, and W. Maier. 2002. Ontogenetic and phylogenetic transformations of the ear ossicles in marsupial mammals. Journal of Morphology 251:219-238.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and R. J. Asher. 2002. Cranio-sensory adaptations in small faunivorous semiaquatic mammals, with special reference to olfaction and the trigeminal system. Mammalia 66:93-109.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2002b. The cerebellar paraflocculus and the subarcuate fossa in Monodelphis domestica and other marsupial mammals: The ontogeny and phylogeny of a brain-skull interaction. Acta Theriologica 47:1-14.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2002a. Comparative patterns of postcranial ontogeny in therian mammals: an analysis of relative timing of ossification events. Journal of Experimental Zoology: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 294:264-273.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and S. Nummela. 2001. Bullate stapedes in some phalangeriform marsupials. Mammalian Biology 66:174-177.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Z. Gasparini, R. Loszán, J. M. Moody and M. D. Uhen. 2001. New Discoveries of Vertebrates from a Near-shore Marine Fauna from the Early Miocene of Northwestern Venezuela. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 75:227-232.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2001b. Ontogenetic and phylogenetic transformations of the vomeronasal complex and the nasal floor in marsupial mammals. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 131:459-479.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2001a. The phylogenetic relationships of argyrolagid marsupials. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 131:481-496.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., R. F. Kay, and F. Anaya-Daza. 2000. Cranial anatomy and paleobiology of the Miocene marsupial Hondalagus altiplanensis and a phylogeny of argyrolagids. Palaeontology 43:287-301.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., R. J. Burnham, D. C. Campbell, R. M. Feldmann, E. S. Gaffney, R. F. Kay, R. Lozsán, R. Purdy, and J. G. M. Thewissen. 2000. A new near-shore marine fauna and flora from the early Neogene of Northwestern Venezuela. Journal of Paleontology 74:957-968.
Mitgutsch, C., F. Hauser, and C. J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen (1999). Expression and developmental regulation of the Hydra-RFamide and Hydra-LWamide preprohormone genes in Hydra: evidence for transient phases of head formation. Dev Biol 207, 189-203.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and B. Williams. 1998. Levels of homoplasy in the evolution of the mammalian skeleton. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 5:113-126.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., T. R. Pope and V. Salas. 1998. Intergroup variation of allogrooming in red howling monkeys (Alouatta seniculus). International Journal of Primatology 19:473-491.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and R. F. Kay. 1997. A skull of Proargyrolagus, the oldest argyrolagid (Late Oligocene Salla Beds, Bolivia), with brief comments on its paleobiology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17:717-724.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and K. K. Smith. 1997. Evolution and diversity of the marsupial mandibular angular process. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 4:119-144.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and R. F. Kay. 1996. Do phalangeriforms (Marsupialia: Diprotodontia) have a "hypocone"? Australian Journal of Zoology 44:461-7.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., P. C. H. Pritchard, A. Paolillo and O. J. Linares. 1995. Geographic variation in the matamata turtle, Chelus fimbriatus, and observations on its shell morphology and morphometry. Journal of Chelonian Conservation and Biology 1:293-300.
Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., O. J. Linares and A. Paolillo. 1995. Consideraciones sobre la sistemática de las tortugas del género Chelus (Pleurodira: Chelidae) y nuevas evidencias fósiles del Mioceno de Colombia y Venezuela. Ameghiniana 32:159-167.
