2024

  • Abel, P. and Werneburg, I. 2024. The temporal region of the tetrapod skull: a textbook example on integrative morphology. Revue de Paléobiologie 43(1), 101-108.
  • Young, M.T., Wilberg, E.W., Johnson, M.M., Herrera, Y., de Andrade, M.B., Brignon, A., Sachs, S., Abel, P., Foffa, D., Fernández, M.S., Vignaud, P., Cowgill, T. and Brusatte, S.L. 2024. The history, systematics, and nomenclature of Thalattosuchia (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlad165. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad165

 

2023

  • Sachs, S., Abel, P. and Madzia, D. 2023b. Unusual plesiosaur vertebrae from the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany. Historical Biology. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2023.2242376
  • Sachs, S., Abel, P. and Madzia, D. 2023a. A 'long-forgotten' plesiosaur provides evidence of large-bodied rhomaleosaurids in the Middle Jurassic of Germany. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 42(5), e2205456. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2023.2205456

 

2022

  • Abel, P., Pommery, Y., Ford, D.P., Koyabu, D. and Werneburg, I. (2022). Skull sutures and cranial mechanics in the Permian reptile Captorhinus aguti and the evolution of the temporal region in early amniotes. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 841784. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.841784
  • Werneburg, I. and Abel, P. (2022). Modelling skull network integrity at the dawn of amniote diversification with considerations on functional morphology and fossil jaw muscle reconstructions. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 799637. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2021.799637

 

2021

  • Abel, P., Hornung, J.J., Kear, B.P., and Sachs, S. (2021). An anhanguerian pterodactyloid mandible from the lower Valanginian of Northern Germany, and the German record of Cretaceous pterosaurs. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. doi: 10.4202/app.00818.2020.
  • Sachs, S., Young, M.T., Abel, P., and Mallison, H. (2021). A new species of Cricosaurus (Thalattosuchia, Metriorhynchidae) based on a remarkably well-preserved skeleton from the Upper Jurassic of Germany. Palaeontologia Electronica: 24.2.a24: 1–28. doi: 10.26879/928
  • Abel, P. and Werneburg, I. (2021). Morphology of the temporal skull region in tetrapods: research history, functional explanations, and a new comprehensive classification scheme. Biological Reviews 96 (5): 2229–2257. doi: 10.1111/brv.12751

 

2020

  • Young, M.T., Sachs, S., Abel, P., Foffa, D., Herrera, Y., and Kitson , J.J.N. (2020). Convergent evolution and possible constraint in the posterodorsal retraction of the external nares in pelagic crocodylomorphs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189 (2): 494–520. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa021
  • Abel, P., Sachs, S., and Young, M.T. (2020). Metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs from the lower Kimmeridgian of Southern Germany: evidence for a new large-bodied geosaurin lineage in Europe. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 44 (2): 312–326. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2019.1701079

2019

  • Sachs, S., Johnson, M.M., Young, M.T., and Abel, P. (2019). The mystery of Mystriosaurus: Redescribing the poorly known Early Jurassic teleosauroid thalattosuchians Mystriosaurus laurillardi and Steneosaurus brevior. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64 (3): 565579. doi: 10.4202/app.00557.2018
  • Sachs, S., Young, M.T., Abel, P., and Mallison, H. (2019). A new species of the metriorhynchid crocodylomorph Cricosaurus from the Upper Jurassic of southern Germany. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64 (2): 343–356. doi: 10.4202/app.00541.2018