The braincase structure of leptopleuron lacertinum owen (parareptilia: Procolophonidae)

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-30

  Spencer, Patrick S ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034398987     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: 19372809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0021:TBSOLL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Benton, M. J., and P. S. Spencer. 1995. Fossil reptiles of Great Britain. Chapman and Hall, London, 386 pp.
2. Benton, M. J., and A. D. Walker. 1981. The use of flexible synthetic rubbers for casts of complex fossils from natural moulds. Geological Magazine 118:155-556.
3. Benton, M. J., and 1985. Palaeoecology, taphonomy, and dating of Permo-Triassic reptiles from Elgin, north-east Scotland. Palaeontology 28:207-234.
4. Bolt, J. R., and R. E. Lombard. 1992. Nature and quality of the fossil evidence for otic evolution in early tetrapods; pp. 377-403 in A. Popper, D. Webster, and R. R. Fay (eds.), Evolutionary Biology of Hearing. Springer-Verlag, New York.
5. Boulenger, G. A. 1904. On the characters and affinities of the Triassic reptile Telerpeton elginense. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1904:470-480.
6. Broom, R. 1937. A further contribution to our knowledge of the fossilreptiles of the Karroo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Series B 107:299-318.
7. Carroll, R. L., and W. Lindsay. 1985. Cranial anatomy of the primitive reptile Procolophon. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 22:1571-87.
8. Chow, M. C., and A. L. Sun. 1960. A new procolophonid from northwestern Shansi. Vertebrata Palasiatica 4:11-13.
9. Gaffney, E.S. 1990. The comparative osteology of the Triassic Turtle Proganochelys. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 194:1-263.
10. Heaton, M. J. 1979. The cranial anatomy of primitive captorhinid reptiles from the Pennsylvanian and Permian of Oklahoma and Texas. Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin 127:1-84.
11. Huene, F. Von. 1912. Die Cotylosaurier der Trias. Palaeontographica 59: 69-102.
12. Huene, F. Von.1920. Ein Telerpeton mit gut erhaltene Schdel. Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 11:189-192.
13. Huxley, T. H. 1867. On a new specimen of Telerpeton elginense. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 23:77-84.
14. Ivakhnenko, M. F. 1973. Skull structure in the early procolophonian Tichvinskia vjatkensis. Paleontological Journal 1973 (4):74-83.
15. Ivakhnenko, M. F. 1979. Permian and Triassic procolophonids of the Russian platform. Trudiy Paleontologischeskogo Instituta Akademia Nauk SSSR, 164:1-80. [In Russian]
16. Kemp, T. S. 1974. The braincase and associated structures of the cotylosaur reptile Procolophon trigoniceps Owen. Annals of the South African Museum 64:11-26.
17. Kesteven, H. L. 1910. The anatomy of the head of the green turtle, Chelone midas, Latr. Part I: the skull. Royal Society of New South Wales Journal and Proceedings 44:368-400.
18. Lee, M. S. Y. 1997. Pareiasaur phylogeny and the origin of turtles. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 120:197-280.
19. Li, J.-L. 1989. A new genus of Procolophonidae from the Lower Triassic of Shaanxi, China. Vertebrata Palasiatica 10:248-267.
20. Manley, G. A. 1990. Peripheral hearing mechanisms in reptiles and birds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 287 pp.
21. Mantell, G. A. 1852. Description of the Telerpeton elginense, a fossil reptile recently discovered in the Old Red Sandstone of Moray; with observations on supposed fossil ova of batrachians in the Lower Devonian strata of Forfarshire. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 8:100-109.
22. Owen, R. 1851. Vertebrate air-breathing life in the Old Red Sandstone. Literary Gazette, and Journal of Belles Lettres, December 20, 1851:2.
23. Price, L. I. 1935. Notes on the braincase of Captorhinus. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 40:377-386.
24. Reisz, R. R., and M. Laurin. 1991. Owenetta and the origin of turtles. Nature 349:324-26.
25. Romer, A. S. 1956. Osteology of the Reptiles. University of Chicago Press. Chicago, 772 pp.
26. Small, B. J. 1997. A new procolophonid from the Upper Triassic of Texas, with a description of tooth replacement and implantation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17:674-687.
27. Spencer, P. S. 1994. The early interrelationships and morphology of Amniota. PhD dissertation, University of Bristol, Bristol, 275 pp.
28. Spencer, P. S., and M. J. Benton. In press. Procolophonids from the Permo-Triassic of Russia: in M. J. Benton, E. N. Kurochkin, M. A. Shishkin, and D. M. Unwin (eds), The age of dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press.
29. Sues, H.-D., D. Baird and P. E. Olsen. 1993. Redescription of Sphodrosaurus pennsylvanicus Colbert, 1960 (Reptilia) and a reassessment of its affinities. Annals of Carnegie Museum 62:245-253.