Lab Publication List

Aguilera OA, Rodrigues de Aguilera, Vega F, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2010) Mesozoic and Cenozoic decapod crustaceans from Venezuela and related trace-fossil assemblages. Pp. 103-128. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA, Carlini AA (eds). Urumaco and Venezuelan Palaeontology – The fossil record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press.

Delfino M, Fritz U, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2010) Evolutionary and developmental aspects of phalangeal formula variation in pig-nose and soft-shelled turtles (Carettochelyidae and Trionychidae). Organisms, Diversity and Evolution. 10: 69-79.

Delfino M, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2010) A survey of the rock record of reptilian ontogeny. In: Developmental Vertebrate Palaeontology (ed Sánchez-Villagra MR). Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 21: 432-440.

Delfino M, Scheyer TM, Fritz U, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2010) An integrative approach to examining a homology question: shell structures in soft-shell turtles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 99:462-476.

Galliari FC, Carlini AC, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2010) Evolution of the axial skeleton in armadillos (Mammalia, Dasypodidae). Mammalian Biology. 75:326-333.

Hautier L, Weisbecker V, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Goswami A, Asher RJ. 2010. Skeletal development in sloths and the evolution of mammalian vertebral patterning. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA. 107:18903–18908. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1010335107.

Hayashi S, Carpenter K, Scheyer TM, Watabe M, Suzuki D (2010) Function and evolution of ankylosaur dermal armor. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 55: 213-228.

Hugi J, Mitgutsch C, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2010) Chondrogenic and ossification patterns in White's skink Liopholis whitii (Scincidae, Reptilia), Zoosystematics and Evolution. 86:21-32.

Mihaljević M, Klug C, Aguilera O, Lüthi T, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2010) Palaeodiversity of Caribbean echinoids including new material from the Venezuelan Neogene. Palaeontologia Electronica 13(3):20A:36p.

Müller J, Scheyer TM, Head JJ, Barrett P, Werneburg I, Ericson PGP, Pol D, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2010) Homeotic effects, somitogenesis and the evolution of vertebral numbers in recent and fossil amniotes. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA. 107: 2118–2123.
Journalistic essay in German by Claudia Hoffmann

Sánchez-Villagra MR (2010) A short history of the study of Venezuelan vertebrate fossils. Pp. 9-18. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA, Carlini AA (eds). Urumaco and Venezuelan Palaeontology – The fossil record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press.

Sánchez-Villagra MR (2010) Developmental palaeontology in synapsids: the rock record of ontogeny in mammals and their closest relatives. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 277: 1139-1147.

Sánchez-Villagra MR (2010) Suture Closure as a Paradigm to Study Late Growth in Recent and Fossils Mammals: A Case Study with Giant Deer and Dwarf Deer Skulls. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30:1895–1898.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA, Carlini AC (2010) The fossil vertebrate record of Venezuela of the last 65 million years. Pp. 19-51. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA, Carlini AA (eds). Urumaco and Venezuelan Palaeontology – The fossil record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Scheyer TM (2010) Fossil turtles from the northern neotropics: The Urumaco sequence fauna and finds from other localities in Venezuela and Colombia. Pp. 173-191. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA, Carlini AA (eds). Urumaco and Venezuelan Palaeontology – The fossil record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Villalba C (2010) Venezuelan geography and biodiversity: a brief introduction. Pp. 3-8. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA, Carlini AA (eds). Urumaco and Venezuelan Palaeontology – The fossil record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press.

Scheyer TM (2010) New interpretation of the postcranial skeleton and overall body shape of the placodont Cyamodus hildegardis Peyer, 1931 (Reptilia, Sauropterygia). Palaeontologia Electronica Vol. 13, Issue 2; 15A:15p.
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Scheyer TM, Moreno-Bernal JW (2010) Fossil crocodylians from Venezuela in the context of South American faunas. Pp. 192-213. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA, Carlini AA (eds). Urumaco and Venezuelan Palaeontology – The fossil record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press.

Scheyer, TM, Klein N, Sander PM (2010) Developmental palaeontology of Reptilia as revealed by histological studies. In: Developmental Vertebrate Palaeontology (Sánchez-Villagra, MR, ed.). Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 21: 462-470.

Schmid L, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2010. Potential genetic bases of morphological evolution in the Triassic fish Saurichthys. Journal of Experimental Zoology, Molecular and Developmental Evolution 314B:519–526.

Vucetich MG, Carlini AA, Aguilera O, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2010. The Tropics as reservoir of otherwise extinct mammals: the case of rodents from a new Pliocene faunal assemblage from northern Venezuela. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 17:265-273.

Weisbecker V, Mitgutsch C (2010) A large-scale survey of heterochrony in anuran cranial ossification patterns. J Zool Syst Evol Res 48, 332-347.

Werneburg I (2010). Zum Ursprung der Schildkröten: Ansätze der Vergleichenden Embryologie. Vierteljahrschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 155(1/2):21-28.

Wilson LAB, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2010) Diversity trends and their ontogenetic basis: an exploration of allometric disparity in rodents. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 277: 1227-1234.

Wilson LAB, Schradin C, Mitgutsch C, Galliari FC, Mess A, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2010) Skeletogenesis in the African Striped Mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) and a study of sequence heterochrony in rodent evolution. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution. 10:243-258.