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The two vertebrate fossil assemblages from the ?Middle Triassic Ntawere Formation have been known since the 1960s, but little new work has been done since the description of novel taxa in the 1960s and 1970s. Three recent field seasons have increased vertebrate diversity in the upper Ntawere assemblage and expanded biostratigraphic connections between the lower and upper Ntawere assemblages and assemblages in fossiliferous basins across southern Pangea. The upper Ntawere contains hybodontoid sharks, ptychoceratodontid lungfish, large- and small-bodied stereospondyl amphibians (Cherninia, ‘Stanocephalosaurus’ Batrachosuchus, a new taxon), stahleckeriid dicynodonts (Sangusaurus, Zambiasaurus), traversodontid and trirachodontid cynodonts (Luangwa, a new species, Cricodon), and at least four archosauromorphs, including a large loricatan pseudosuchian, a shuvosaurid poposauroid, and silesaurid dinosauriforms (Lutungutali), whereas the lower Ntawere contains the cynodonts Cynognathus and Diademodon and species of the dicynodont Kannemeyeria. The lower and upper Ntawere assemblages have been correlated with the middle and upper subzones of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone of the Karoo Basin, South Africa, into a network of connections between assemblages in modern day Tanzania, Argentina, Brazil, Namibia, Antarctica, and India. Although lower Ntawere correlations are reinforced by the occurrence of Cynognathus, new observations from the upper Ntawere, in combination with field work in Tanzania, Namibia, and Brazil, have shifted the geographic focus of biostratigraphic connection away from the Karoo later in the Triassic. A recent radiometric date from Argentina from below the horizon correlated with both the Karoo and the lower Ntawere places these, and all higher assemblages, into the Carnian Stage of the Late Triassic.

The vertebrate fauna of the Cloverly Formation has been studied for more than 75 years, but remains poorly sampled and incompletely understood. We undertook an extensive survey of the formation that resulted in the discovery of several new, highly productive vertebrate microfossil bonebeds (VMBs). Comprehensive sampling of these and other sites has nearly doubled the known vertebrate diversity of the Cloverly Formation. In addition to the comparatively well-known dinosaurs, this augmented faunal list includes hybodontoid sharks, numerous bony fishes, three lissamphibian lineages, lizards, multiple crocodylians, and several new mammal occurrences. The known Cloverly vertebrate fauna now more closely resembles those of other late Early Cretaceous formations in North America, indicating broad similarities across wide geographic areas at this time. In addition, this work underscores the important role VMBs can play in areas previously studied primarily through surface prospecting and quarrying, espec...

Data, whether images, measurements, counts, occurrences, or character codings, are a cornerstone of vertebrate paleontology. Every published paper, master's thesis, and doctoral dissertation relies on these data to document patterns and processes in evolution, ecology, taphonomy, geography, geologic time, and functional morphology, to name just a few. In turn, the vertebrate paleontology community relies on published data in order to reproduce and verify others' work, as well as to expand upon published analyses in new ways without having to reconstitute data sets that have been used by earlier authors and to accurately preserve data for future generations of researchers. Here, we review several databases that are of interest to vertebrate paleontologists and strongly advocate for more deposition of basic research data in publicly accessible databases by vertebrate paleontologists.

The genus Notopithecus is the best known and most abundant among the genera traditionally grouped as “Notopithecinae” (Notoungulata, Interatheriidae). Previous studies have described in detail the morphology of the skull of Notopithecus; however, its scarce appendicular bones were poorly characterized. Until now neither skulls nor associated skeletons were known for the other genera of this group. In this paper, the most complete individual of Notopithecus is described. The specimen MPEF-PV 1113 is in the vertebrate paleontology collection at the Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, and comes from Valle Hermoso, Chubut Province, Argentina. It includes the articulated cranium and mandible and most of the postcranial skeleton, with almost all the elements in anatomical position: many articulated vertebrae, scapula, humerus, radius, femur, tibia, fibula, calcaneum, astragalus, metapodials, and phalanges. The present contribution constitutes the first comparative study of the postcranial ske...

Citation for this article: Villa, A., R. Kosma, A. Cerňanský, and M. Delfino. 2018. Taxonomic assessment of ‘Bavaricordylus’ Kosma, 2004 (Reptilia, Squamata). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2018.1487844.

Citation for this article: Zhang, H. T. Pape, and A. M. Lister. 2018. On the type material of Elephas hysudrindicus Dubois, 1908 (Mammalia, Proboscidea). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10...

(2009). Dyrosaurid remains from the Intertrappean Beds of India and the Late Cretaceous distribution of Dyrosauridae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 1321-1326.

(2009). Differentiation of Phiomys andrewsi from Lavocatomys aequatorialis (n. gen., n. sp.) (Rodentia: Thryonomyoidea) in the Oligo-Miocene interval on continental Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 1331-1334.

(2009). A reinterpretation of pteroid articulation in pterosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 1327-1330.

The Mesozoic record of fossil vertebrates from Bolivia (Fig. 1) was restricted heretofore to Campanian–Maastrichtian dinosaur footprints (e.g., Leonardi, 1989; Sua´rez Riglos, 1995; Lockley et al., 2002; McCrea et al., 2001; Meyer et al., 2001) and isolated and poorly informative dinosaur teeth and bones (Aguilera et al., 1989; Gutierrez and Marshall, 1994). Discovery of several, almost complete skeletons of a new notosuchian taxon constitutes the most important body-fossil discovery for the Mesozoic of Bolivia, adding substantially to the meager record of this region of South America. At least two partially disarticulated skeletons and two complete eggs were found together in a small area, constituting one of the few available associations of skeletal remains and eggs for extinct crocodyliforms. In this paper we describe this material as a new genus and species. We consider only the skull morphology, because most of available postcranial remains are still under technical preparation. Fil: Novas, Fernando Emilio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”; Argentina Fil: Pais, Diego Fernando. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”; Argentina Fil: Pol, Diego. Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Carvalho, Ismar De Souza. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Brasil Fil: Scanferla, Carlos Agustín. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”; Argentina Fil: Mones, Alvaro. No especifica; Fil: Riglos, Mario Suárez. Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado; Bolivia

(2009). Pedal morphology of the marsupial lion Thylacoleo carnifex (Diprotodontia: Thylacoleonidae) from the Pleistocene of Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 1335-1340.

(2009). A plesiosaur containing an ichthyosaur embryo as stomach contents from the Sundance Formation of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 1306-1310.

(2009). New material of Luperosuchus fractus (Archosauria: Crurotarsi) from the Middle Triassic of Argentina: the earliest known South American ‘Rauisuchian’. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 1311-1315.

(2009). Oldest European occurence of Meles (Mustelidae, Carnivora) from the Middle Pliocene (Mn16) of Almenara-Casablanca-4 Karstic Site (Castellon, Spain) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 961-965.

(2009). A new pliocene dolphin (Cetacea: Pontoporiidae), from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 966-971.

XPS acknowledges the financial support provided by the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (MEC) (Programa Ramon y Cajal; projects CGL2004-02338 and CGL2007-64061/BTE) the UPV/EHU (9/UPV 00121.310-15303/2003) and the Basque Government (CIC07/14-361). Research work of JIC and PCC was supported by the MEC and the ERDF (CGL 200403393, CGL2007-62469/BTE) and the Government of Aragon (Grupos Consolidados 2007, Department for Education and Culture). Research of JIR-O is supported by the Regional Ministry for Culture and Tourism of the Principality of Asturias (Protocolo CN-04-226). The manuscript was significantly improved thanks to the helpful reviews from P. Godefroit and F. Dalla Vecchia. Z. Herrera and I. Perez-Urresti (Univ. Zaragoza) prepared some of the photographs. A. Galobart (IPS, Sabadell) and A. Prieto-Morquez (Florida State University, Tallahassee) facilitated information to us.

(2009). Presence of the extinct lizard Paradracaena (Teiidae) in the middle Miocene of the Peruvian Amazon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 594-598.

(2009). New material of “Trematochampsa” oblita (Crocodyliformes, Trematochampsidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 599-604.

(2009). A new primitive bat from the earliest Eocene of Europe. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 627-630.

HARRY L. FIERSTINE*'1 and PHILIP D. GINGERICH2; biological Sciences Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California 93407-0401 U.S.A. and Research Associate, Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California 90007 U.S.A., hfiersti@calpoly.edu; 2Geological Sciences and Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Rd., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1079 U.S.A., gingeric@umich.edu

(2009). An enigmatic new lambeosaurine hadrosaur (Reptilia: Dinosauria) from the Upper Shale member of the Campanian Aguja Formation of Trans-Pecos Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 605-611.

(2009). Earliest Gondwanan bird from the Cretaceous of southeastern Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 616-619.

The extant seriemas are long-legged cursorial birds which represent surviving relicts in South America of an early gruiform radiation within the suborder Cariamae. Phorusrhacids, idiornithids, and bathornithids are also extinct components of this large terrestrial stock of predator or scavenger birds which were abundant during the Tertiary of South and North America,and Europe. The phylogenetic relationships and paleobiogeographic history of these clades are today far from being resolved. However, Tertiary fossils of cariamids Cariaminae are scarce and restricted to the questionable record of Riacama caliginea Ameghino 1899 from the Late Oligocene (Deseadan age) of Santa Cruz Province, and the Early-Middle Pliocene (Montehermosan age) record of Chungai incerta Tonni 1974 from Buenos Aires Province, both in Argentina. Living seriemas comprise only two very closely related,and perhaps congeneric species, Cariama cristata (Linnaeus 1766) and Chunga burmeisteri (Hartlaub 1860), which are endemic of South America. The fossils herein described come from the locality Puesto Estancia La Costa (= Corriguen Aike), situated at the coast of Santa Cruz Province, between Coyle and Gallegos rivers, and were recovered from the middle levels of Estancia La Costa Member, Santa Cruz Formation. The remains include three unassociated specimens: a fragmentary basicranium and two distal fragments of tibiotarsi, one of them slightly larger and more robust than the other. The leg bones are nearly indistinguishable from the homologous elements in living seriemas. A new species is erected: Cariama santacrucensis. Fil: Noriega, Jorge Ignacio. Provincia de Entre Ríos. Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia de Tecnología a la Producción. Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos. Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia de Tecnología a la Producción. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia de Tecnología a la Producción; Argentina Fil: Vizcaíno, Sergio Fabián. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Paleontología Vertebrados; Argentina Fil: Bargo, María Susana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Paleontología Vertebrados; Argentina

(2009). Assignment of Yamaceratops dorngobiensis and associated redbeds at Shine Us Khudag (eastern Gobi, Dorngobi Province, Mongolia) to the redescribed Javkhlant Formation (Upper Cretaceous) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 295-302.

(2008). Stratigraphic distribution of sauropods in the Upper Cretaceous of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, with comments on North America's Cretaceous ‘sauropod hiatus’. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 1218-1223.

(2008). Blickomylus (Artiodactyla, Camelidae, Stenomylinae) and the age of the Moroni Formation, central Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 1228-1231.

(2008). New anacoracid shark from upper Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk of western Kansas, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 1189-1194.

Paradolichopithecus is, together with Procynocephalus of Eastern Asia, the largest Eurasian monkey of the Pliocene. This Pliocene papionin is a derived macaque and probably the sister taxon of Macaca (Strasser and Delson, 1987), but has the body mass of the largest baboons (Mandrillus sphinx, P. ursinus, Theropithecus gelada). In morphology, it resembles macaques cranially and baboons postcranially (Szalay and Delson, 1979: 367). In cranial proportions Paradolichopithecus superficially resembles Papio, but when allometric factors are considered, it resembles more Macaca (Delson and Frost, 2004:22). Fossils of Paradolichopithecus in Europe are found in humid and closed localities in the Early Pliocene but in more arid and open localities in the Late Pliocene, reflecting its ability to adapt in pace with climatic trends in Europe (Eronen and Rook, 2004). The distribution of the genus is from the Early Pliocene in Europe and western Asia (Eronen and Rook, 2004) to the Early Pleistocene in eastern Asia (Deng et al., 2004:12). In 1998 a juvenile mandible of Paradolichopithecus arvernensis was discovered by Paul Sondaar in a Late Pliocene locality of Greece (De Vos et al., 2002). The locality (Vatera, F-site) is situated on southern Lesvos, an island close to the coast of Asia Minor, to which it was connected during the entire Pliocene. The finding gives us the opportunity to investigate aspects of the life history of this fossil monkey. Life history is a fundamental issue in vertebrate paleontology. Life history has been analyzed for the majority of extant primates, starting with the phenomenal work of Schultz (1935). The life history of a species includes milestones such as its age at sexual maturity, age at death, and age at other events in an individual’s lifetime that influence reproductive traits.

(2008). Horizons and assemblages of Middle Triassic marine reptiles from Panxian, Guizhou, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 900-903.

(2008). “Snagging” teeth and premolar homologies in Paleoparadoxiidae (Mammalia: Desmostylia) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 923-927.

(2008). New protocetid whales from Alabama and Mississippi, and a new Cetacean clade, Pelagiceti. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 589-593.

(2008). Muscardinus meridionalis sp. nov., a new species of Gliridae (Rodentia, Mammalia) and its implications for the phylogeny of Muscardinus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 568-573.

(2008). Hyaenodon chunkhtensis and the hyaenodontid fauna from the upper Eocene Ergilin Dzo Formation of Mongolia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 559-564.

(2007). First Atlantic record of the puffin Cerorhinca (Aves, Alcidae) from the Pliocene of North Carolina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 1039-1042.

(2007). Timeless design: colored pattern of skin in early Permian branchiosaurids (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 1047-1050.

(2007). The age and provenance of “Eschrichtius” cephalus Cope (Mammalia: Cetacea) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 752-756.

(2007). Heleosaurus scholtzi from the Permian of South Africa: a varanopid synapsid, not a diapsid reptile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 734-739.

FLORENT RIVALS,* MATTHEW C. MIHLBACHLER,2 and NIKOS SOLOUNIAS2; ICREA-IPHES (Institut Catalh de Paleoecologia Humana i Evoluci6 Social), Area de Prehistbria-Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Plaga Imperial Tarraco 1, 43005 Tarragona, Spain. florent.rivals@icrea.es; 2Department of Anatomy, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, New York 11568, U.S.A.; Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th street, New York 10024, U.S.A.

(2007). Paranasal pneumatization of two late Miocene colobines: Mesopithecus and Libypithecus (Cercopithecidae: Primates) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 768-771.

(2007). Canine grooves: morphology, function, and relevance to venom. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 547-551.

(2007). The comparative method and the inference of venom-delivery systems in fossil mammals. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 541-546.

(2007). First record of a thalattosaur from the Upper Triassic of Austria. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 236-240.

(2007). Highly incomplete taxa and the phylogenetic relationships of the theropod dinosaur Juravenator starki. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 253-256.

(2007). Taxonomic clarification of the Australian elasmosaurid genus Eromangasaurus, with reference to other austral elasmosaur taxa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 241-246.

(2007). An “egg-tooth”–like structure in titanosaurian sauropod embryos. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 247-252.

(2006). The anatomy and homologies of the ceratopsid syncervical. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 1014-1017.

(2006). Earliest lizard from the late triassic (Carnian) of India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 795-800.

(2006). Reassessment of Cratochelone Berneyi Longman, 1915, a giant sea turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 779-783.

(2006). The earliest Tertiary therian mammal from South America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 505-510.

(2006). Discovery of Deseadan fossils in the upper Moquegua Formation (late Oligocene—?early Miocene) of southern Peru. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 205-208.