Lab Publication List

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(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.

Head JJ, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA (2006). Fossil snakes from the Neogene of Venezuela (Falcón State). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4(3): 233-240.

Horovitz I, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Martin T, Aguilera OA (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, Aguilera OA (2006) Neogene Vertebrates from Urumaco, Falcón State, Venezuela: Diversity and Significance. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4: 213-220.

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.

Sánchez-Villagra, MR, Horovitz, I, Motokawa, M (2006) A comprehensive morphological analysis of talpid moles (Mammalia) phylogenetic relationships. Cladistics 22:59-88.

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.

Asher RJ, Sánchez-Villagra MR (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.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Menke PR (2005) The mole's thumb - evolution of the hand skeleton in talpids (Mammalia). Zoology. 108:3-12.

Schmelzle T, Nummela S, Sánchez-Villagra MR (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.

Asher RJ, Horovitz I, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2004) First Combined Cladistic Analysis of Marsupial Mammal Phylogenetic Relationships. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 33: 240-250.

Crumly CC, Sánchez-Villagra MR (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.

Prochel J, Vogel P, Sánchez-Villagra MR (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.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Asher RJ, Rincón AD, Carlini AA, Meylan P, Purdy RW (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.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Menke PR, Geisler JH (2004) Patterns of evolutionary transformation in the humerus of moles (Talpidae, Mammalia): a character analysis. Mammal Study 29: 163-170.

Weston EM, Madden RH, Sánchez-Villagra MR (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.

Gemballa S, Weitbrecht GW, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2003) 3-D reconstruction and microanatomy of the myosepta in the lancelet Branchiostoma lanceolatum (Pallas, 1774). Zoomorphology 122: 169-179.

Goin FJ, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Kay RF, Anaya-Daza F, Takai M (2003) New Paleothentid Marsupial from the Middle Miocene of Bolivia. Palaeontology 46: 307-315.

Horovitz I, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2003) A morphological analysis of marsupial mammal higher-level phylogenetic relationships. Cladistics 19: 181-212.

Prochel J, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2003) Carpal ontogeny in Monodelphis domestica and Caluromys philander (Didelphidae, Marsupialia). Zoology 106: 73-84.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA, Horovitz I (2003) The anatomy of the world's largest extinct rodent. Science , 301: 1708-1710.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Döttling M (2003) Carpal ontogeny in Dasyurus viverrinus and carpal evolution in the Dasyuromorpha among the Marsupialia. Mammalian Biology. 68: 329-340.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, 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.

Gaffney ES, DeBlieux D, Simons E, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Meylan PA (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.

Großmann M, Sánchez-Villagra MR, 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.

Sánchez-Villagra MR (2002) 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 MR (2002) 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 MR, Asher RJ (2002) Cranio-sensory adaptations in small faunivorous semiaquatic mammals, with special reference to olfaction and the trigeminal system. Mammalia 66:93-109.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Gemballa S, Nummela S, Smith KK, Maier W (2002) Ontogenetic and phylogenetic transformations of the ear ossicles in marsupial mammals. Journal of Morphology 251:219-238.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Maier W (2002) Ontogenetic data and the evolutionary origin of the mammalian scapula. Naturwissenschaften 89:459-461.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Sultan F (2002) The cerebellum at birth in therian mammals, with special reference to rodents. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 59:101-113.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Wible JR (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 MR (2001) 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 MR (2001) The phylogenetic relationships of argyrolagid marsupials. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 131:481-496.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Gasparini Z, Loszán R, Moody JM, Uhen MD (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 MR, Nummela S (2001) Bullate stapedes in some phalangeriform marsupials. Mammalian Biology 66:174-177.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Burnham RJ, Campbell DC, Feldmann RM, Gaffney ES, Kay RF, Lozsán R, Purdy R, Thewissen JGM (2000) A new near-shore marine fauna and flora from the early Neogene of Northwestern Venezuela. Journal of Paleontology 74:957-968.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Kay R, Anaya-Daza F (2000) Cranial anatomy and paleobiology of the Miocene marsupial Hondalagus altiplanensis and a phylogeny of argyrolagids. Palaeontology 43:287-301.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Pope TR, Salas V (1998) Relation of intergroup variation in allogrooming to group social structure and ectoparasite loads in red howlers (Alouatta seniculus). International Journal of Primatology 19:473-491.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Williams B (1998) Levels of homoplasy in the evolution of the mammalian skeleton. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 5:113-126.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Kay RF (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 MR, Smith KK (1997) Diversity and evolution of the marsupial mandibular angular process. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 4:119-144.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Kay RF (1996) Do phalangeriforms (Marsupialia: Diprotodontia) have a "hypocone"? Australian Journal of Zoology 44:461-7.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Linares OJ, Paolillo A (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.

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Pritchard PCH, Paolillo A, Linares OJ (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.