Novel neuroanatomical integration and scaling define avian brain shape evolution and development by Akinobu Watanabe, Amy M Balanoff, Paul M Gignac, M Eugenia L Gold, Mark A Norell

“…Collectively, these patterns demonstrate a plurality in evolutionary processes that generate encephalized brains in archosaurs and across vertebrates.…”
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Osteohistology of a Triassic dinosaur population reveals highly variable growth trajectories typified early dinosaur ontogeny by Daniel E. Barta, Christopher T. Griffin, Mark A. Norell

“…Poor correlations among size, age, and morphological maturity strongly support the presence of unique, highly variable growth trajectories in early dinosaurs relative to coeval archosaurs and their living kin.…”
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Wing bone geometry reveals active flight in Archaeopteryx by Dennis F. A. E. Voeten, Jorge Cubo, Emmanuel de Margerie, Martin Röper, Vincent Beyrand, Stanislav Bureš, Paul Tafforeau, Sophie Sanchez

“…Here, Voeten et al. compare wing bone architecture from Archaeopteryx and both flying and non-flying archosaurs, supporting that Archaeopteryx had powered flight but with a different stroke than that of modern birds.…”
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Revised phylogenetic analysis of the Aetosauria (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia); assessing the effects of incongruent morphological character sets by William G. Parker

“…It is one of only two Late Triassic clades of large herbivorous archosaurs, and thus served a critical ecological role. …”
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Phylogenomic analyses support the position of turtles as the sister group of birds and crocodiles (Archosauria) by Chiari Ylenia, Cahais Vincent, Galtier Nicolas, Delsuc Frédéric

“…These studies have supported conflicting topologies, positioning turtles as either the sister group to all other reptiles, to lepidosaurs (tuatara, lizards and snakes), to archosaurs (birds and crocodiles), or to crocodilians. …”
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Reassessment of Faxinalipterus minimus, a purported Triassic pterosaur from southern Brazil with the description of a new taxon by Alexander W.A. Kellner, Borja Holgado, Orlando Grillo, Flávio Augusto Pretto, Leonardo Kerber, Felipe Lima Pinheiro, Marina Bento Soares, Cesar Leandro Schultz, Ricardo Tadeu Lopes, Olga Araújo, Rodrigo Temp Müller

“…These two enigmatic archosaurs expand our knowledge on the Caturrita Formation fauna and reinforce the importance of its beds on the understanding of Late Triassic ecosystems.…”
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The osteology and phylogenetic position of the loricatan (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) Heptasuchus clarki, from the ?Mid-Upper Triassic, southeastern Big Horn Mountains, Central Wyom... by Sterling J. Nesbitt, John M. Zawiskie, Robert M. Dawley

“…Renewed interest and the discovery of more complete specimens recently revolutionized our understanding of the relationships of archosaurs, the origin of Crocodylomorpha, and the paleobiology of these animals. …”
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Testing pterosaur ingroup relationships through broader sampling of avemetatarsalian taxa and characters and a range of phylogenetic analysis techniques by Matthew G. Baron

“…Anatomical characters used in other recent studies of archosaurs and early dinosaurs have also been incorporated. …”
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Vascular Patterns in Iguanas and Other Squamates: Blood Vessels and Sites of Thermal Exchange. by William Ruger Porter, Lawrence M Witmer

“…Squamates offer important anatomical and phylogenetic evidence for the inference of the blood vessels of dinosaurs and other extinct archosaurs in that they shed light on the basal diapsid condition. …”
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A giant Late Triassic ichthyosaur from the UK and a reinterpretation of the Aust Cliff 'dinosaurian' bones. by Dean R Lomax, Paul De la Salle, Judy A Massare, Ramues Gallois

“…We argue here that the Aust bones, previously identified as those of dinosaurs or large terrestrial archosaurs, are jaw fragments from giant ichthyosaurs. …”
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Estimating bite force in extinct dinosaurs using phylogenetically predicted physiological cross-sectional areas of jaw adductor muscles by Manabu Sakamoto

“…I present a Bayesian phylogenetic predictive modelling (PPM) framework that allows the prediction of muscle parameters (physiological cross-sectional area, APhys) in extinct archosaurs from skull width (WSk) and phylogeny. This approach is robust to phylogenetic uncertainty and highly versatile given its ability to base predictions on simple, readily available predictor variables. …”
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Cranial pathologies in a specimen of Pachycephalosaurus. by Joseph E Peterson, Christopher P Vittore

“…<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>In order to identify the origin of these structures, computed tomography (CT) data and morphological characteristics of the specimen are analyzed and compared with similar osteological structures in fossil and extant archosaurs caused by taphonomic processes, non-pathologic bone resorption, and traumatic infection/inflammatory origins. …”
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METRIORHYNCHIDAE (CROCODYLOMORPHA: THALATTOSUCHIA) FROM UPPER JURASSIC–LOWER CRETACEOUS OF NEUQUÉN BASIN (ARGENTINA), WITH COMMENTS ON THE NATURAL CASTS OF THE BRAIN by Yanina Herrera

“…Understanding these changes will allow defining the key innovations that allowed to the metriorhynchids conquer the pelagic environment, unparalleled among archosaurs.…”
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Peculiar macrophagous adaptations in a new Cretaceous pliosaurid by Valentin Fischer, Maxim S. Arkhangelsky, Ilya M. Stenshin, Gleb N. Uspensky, Nikolay G. Zverkov, Roger B. J. Benson

“…Maximum-likelihood ancestral state reconstruction suggests early brachauchenines retained trihedral teeth from their ancestors, but modified this feature in a unique way, convergent with macrophagous archosaurs or sphenacodontoids. Our findings indicate that Early Cretaceous marine reptile teeth with serrated carinae cannot be unequivocally assigned to metriorhynchoid crocodylomorphs. …”
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THE UNUSUAL TAIL OF <em>TETHYSHADROS INSULARIS</em> (DINOSAURIA, HADROSAUROIDEA) FROM THE ADRIATIC ISLAND OF THE EUROPEAN ARCHIPELAGO by FABIO MARCO DALLA VECCHIA

“…The reconstruction of the tail musculature by comparison with that of living archosaurs and other dinosaurs suggests that the posterior shift of the first haemapophysis  affected the size and shape of the M.m. caudofemorales with important consequences on the locomotion of T. insularis. …”
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Respiratory evolution facilitated the origin of pterosaur flight and aerial gigantism. by Leon P A M Claessens, Patrick M O'Connor, David M Unwin

“…We investigated the structure and function of the pterosaurian breathing apparatus through a broad scale comparative study of respiratory structure and function in living and extinct archosaurs, using computer-assisted tomographic (CT) scanning of pterosaur and bird skeletal remains, cineradiographic (X-ray film) studies of the skeletal breathing pump in extant birds and alligators, and study of skeletal structure in historic fossil specimens. …”
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The mammalian Crx genes are highly divergent representatives of the Otx5 gene family, a gnathostome orthology class of orthodenticle-related homeogenes involved in the differentiat... by Plouhinec, J, Sauka-Spengler, T, Germot, A, Le Mentec, C, Cabana, T, Harrison, G, Pieau, C, Sire, J, Véron, G, Mazan, S

“…To test this hypothesis, we have identified Crx genes in a wide range of mammals, including three marsupials, and Otx5-related genes in a lizard, a turtle, and two archosaurs (crocodile and chick), as well as in the pufferfish. …”

The first 50Myr of dinosaur evolution: macroevolutionary pattern and morphological disparity. by Brusatte, S, Benton, M, Ruta, M, Lloyd, G

“…We calculate the morphological disparity (morphospace occupation) of dinosaurs throughout the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic and present new measures of taxonomic diversity. Crurotarsan archosaurs, the primary dinosaur 'competitors', were significantly more disparate than dinosaurs throughout the Triassic, but underwent a devastating extinction at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. …”

Paleoneuroanatomy of the aetosaur Neoaetosauroides engaeus (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) and its paleobiological implications among archosauriforms by M. Belen von Baczko, Jeremías R.A. Taborda, Julia Brenda Desojo

“…The paleoneuroanatomy of pseudosuchian archosaurs is poorly known, based on direct examination of the internal morphology of braincases and a few artificial endocasts. …”
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The first occurrence of the enigmatic archosauriform Crosbysaurus Heckert 2004 from the Chinle Formation of southern Utah by Robert J. Gay, Isabella St. Aude

“…The understanding of Triassic dental faunas has become more complicated by the extreme convergence between pseudosuchian archosaurs and ornithischian dinosaur dental morphologies. …”
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