The cranial osteology of the aquatic reptile Mesosaurus tenuidens is redescribed on the basis of new and previously examined materials from the Lower Permian of both southern Africa and South America. Mesosaurus is distinguished from other mesosaurs in exhibiting an ... and the organization of the marginal teeth of Mesosaurus suggests that they were used to capture individually ... aspects of the skull support the idea that Mesosaurus was an aquatic predator and that the skull ...
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
2006 - Oxford University Press | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Produção Nacional
Graciela Piñeiro, Jorge Ferigolo, Álvaro Mones, Pablo Núñez Demarco,
... high controversy over time. Currently, three monotypic genera, Mesosaurus tenuidens Gervais, Stereosternum tumidum Cope, and Brazilosaurus sanpauloensis ... controlled by taphonomic and ecological conditions, we recognize Mesosaurus as the only mesosaurid taxon in the Paraná ... taxa cannot be confirmed to be absent in Mesosaurus. Keywords: Mesosaurus, morphometrics, taxonomy, ?Early Permian, Gondwana.
Tópico(s): Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
2021 - | Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia
... basal são freqüentes restos de um pequeno réptil (Mesosaurus). A série Passa Dois descansa sobre a série ... restos de esqueletos de um pequeno réptil natante (Mesosaurus brasiliensis Mac Gregor) e crustáceos pertencentes a gêneros ... a da série Damuda da índia; presença de Mesosaurus e de Leaia, etc. O conhecimento da flora ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
1954 - | Boletim da Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras Universidade de São Paulo Geologia
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Graciela Piñeiro, Jorge Ferigolo, Alejandro Ramos, Michel Laurin,
... a new anatomical reconstruction of the skull of Mesosaurus tenuidens, differing from earlier ones especially in the ... justifient une nouvelle reconstitution anatomique du crâne de Mesosaurus tenuidens, différant des plus anciennes, en particulier par ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2012 - Elsevier BV | Comptes Rendus Palevol
Joaquín Villamil, Pablo Núñez Demarco, Melitta Meneghel, R. Ernesto Blanco, Washington Jones, Andrés Rinderknecht, Michel Laurin, Graciela Piñeiro,
... of continuous debate since the first description of Mesosaurus tenuidens by Paul Gervais in 1867. Controversy surrounds ... first biomechanical study about optimal swimming capabilities in Mesosaurus tenuidens, which along with the comparative analysis of ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2015 - Taylor & Francis | Historical Biology
ABSTRACT The postcranial skeleton of Mesosaurus tenuidens, a reptile from the Lower Permian of eastern South America and southern Africa, is redescribed and illustrated in detail. The ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Graciela Piñeiro, Pablo Núñez Demarco, Melitta Meneghel,
... preserved tarsi of the Early Permian aquatic amniote Mesosaurus tenuidens Gervais, 1864–1865, which represent the most ... or maybe early after birth. A non-hatched Mesosaurus in an advanced stage of development shows that ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2016 - PeerJ, Inc. | PeerJ
Pablo Núñez Demarco, Melitta Meneghel, Michel Laurin, Graciela Piñeiro,
... vertebral centrum length along the axial skeleton of Mesosaurus tenuidens fits better with a semi-aquatic morphometric ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2018 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Nicole Klein, Antoine Verrière, Heitor Sartorelli, Tanja Wintrich, Jörg Fröbisch,
... of aquatic adaption. Ribs of Stereosternum, Brazilosaurus, and Mesosaurus are clearly distinguishable from each other by the ... of rest lines) when compared to Stereosternum and Mesosaurus.
Tópico(s): Turtle Biology and Conservation
2019 - Wiley | Fossil record
... Demarco, Melitta Meneghel, Michel Laurin, Graciela Piñeiro Was Mesosaurus a Fully Aquatic Reptile?, Frontiers in Ecology and ...
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
1910 - University of Chicago Press | The Journal of Geology
... penetration of the conical notochordal substance, as in Mesosaurus , and the vertebræ referred by Sir R. Owen ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
1892 - Geological Society of London | Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society
Prof. Gervais in 1865 described under the name Mesosaurus tenuidens the remains of a small reptile from ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
1892 - Geological Society of London | Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society
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1904 - Taylor & Francis | Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society
... if not the only ones, are Stereosternum and Mesosaurus from the Santa Catherina System of Brazil, the ...
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
1912 - Wiley | Journal of Morphology
... cranial skeleton of the Early Permian aquatic reptile Mesosaurus tenuidens: implications for relationships and palaeobiology, Zoological Journal ...
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
1917 - University of Chicago Press | The Journal of Geology
... Merriam. Through recent additional observations of the extensive Mesosaurus material at Tübingen (from Brazil) this group may ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
1923 - Geological Society of America | Geological Society of America Bulletin
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
1987 - Academy of Science of South Africa | South African Journal of Science
Aurore Canoville, Michel Laurin,
... Claudiosaurus, and Placodus were amphibious, whereas Neusticosaurus and Mesosaurus were aquatic. Lystrosaurus may have been more aquatic ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2010 - Oxford University Press | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Roger M. H. Smith, P.G. Eriksson, W. J. Botha,
... climatic conditions (Lower Ecca Group) including the distinctive Mesosaurus-bearing carbonaceous shales of the Whitehill Formation. Subduction ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
1993 - Elsevier BV | Journal of African Earth Sciences (and the Middle East)
... a tarsale proximale. Developmental stages of the parareptilian Mesosaurus document a similar ossification pattern, as do ontogenic ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
1993 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
... froesi; Zona Barbosaia angulata; Zona Paulocaris pachecoi; Zona Mesosaurus brasiliensis com a Subzona Pygaspis brasiliensis e Zona ...
Tópico(s): Geography and Environmental Studies
2013 - | Revista do Instituto Geológico
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Marcello Guimarães Simões, Suzana Aparecida Matos, Lucas V. Warren, Mário Luís Assine, Cláudio Riccomini, João Guedes Bondioli,
... oxygen-deficient facies are commonly recorded in the Mesosaurus-bearing Irati Formation (Cisuralian, Artinskian/Kungurian) and the ...
Tópico(s): Geological formations and processes
2016 - Elsevier BV | Journal of South American Earth Sciences
Produção Nacional
Percy Corrêa Vieira, Sérgio Mezzalira, Francisco José Fonseca Ferreira,
... Irati sediments were mainly shales bearing the reptil Mesosaurus brasiliensis.
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
1991 - Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia | Brazilian Journal of Geology
Produção Nacional
PERCY C. VIEIRA, SÉRGIO MEZZALIRA, Francisco José Fonseca Ferreira,
... Irati sediments were mainly shales bearing the réptil Mesosaurus brasiliensis.
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
1991 - Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia | Revista Brasileira de Geociências
Antoine Verrière, Nadia B. Fröbisch, Jörg Fröbisch,
... preserved specimens of the early Permian mesosaurid reptile Mesosaurus tenuidens : (i) centrum ossification, (ii) neural arch ossification, ( ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2022 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
... do Rio Grande do Su}, Brasil (Horizonte de Mesosaurus). Barakaroxylon resiniierum n. sp. presenta una medula larga ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
1976 - Asociación Paleontológica Argentina | Ameghiniana
Lílian de L. Timm, Dina Celeste Araújo-Barberena,
... celulas da medula ossea em uma ulna de Mesosaurus tenuidens Gervais 1864 e em uma vertebra, ossos ... a osteoblastos ou a osteocitos jovens. Palavras-chave: Mesosaurus, Stereosternum, medula ossea, celulas, histologia, tecido mole.
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2006 - UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS | Gaea - Journal of Geoscience
Pablo Núñez Demarco, Melitta Meneghel, Michel Laurin, Graciela Piñeiro,
... or terrestrial, we studied vertebral columns (backbones) of Mesosaurus and compared them to those of other aquatic ... terrestrial or aquatic environments. Surprisingly, we found that Mesosaurus is more similar to terrestrial animals, which changes ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2019 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers for Young Minds
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Thiago Carlisbino, Brodsky Dantas Macedo de Farias, Fernando Antonio Sedor, César Leandro Schultz,
... this contribution, we examined the bone microstructure of Mesosaurus tenuidens by analyzing thin sections of axial and ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2024 - Wiley | The Anatomical Record
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Graciela Piñeiro, Jorge Ferigolo, Brodsky Dantas Macedo de Farias, Pablo Núñez Demarco, Michel Laurin,
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2025 - Muséum national d'histoire naturelle | Geodiversitas