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2011
Book chapter
Directions in palaeoneurology
This collection of papers honours Dr Angela C Milner and her contribution to vertebrate palaeontology, with articles authored by many of her colleagues and former students. These articles encompass studies on the earliest four-legged vertebrates, lizards, marine reptiles, turtles, dinosaurs, birds and mammals, ranging in age from just after the...Walsh, Stig A ; Knoll, Monja A
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2010
Book chapter
Reptiles
The coastline of Dorset exposes a long squence of Jurassic age sedimentary rocks which, with its wealth of invertebrate, vertebrate and plant fossils. From the pioneering work of early collectors like Mary Anning onwards, the area has been a cradle of palaeontology. The Lower Lias is particularly fossiliferous and this...Walsh, Stig A ; Milner, Angela C
reptile, fossil Jurassic, and Lias
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2017
Book chapter
The evolution of avian intelligence and sensory capabilities: the fossil evidence
Crocodiles and birds are the only living representatives of Archosauria, a once diverse clade of vertebrates that mastered terrestrial, aerial and aquatic environments during the Mesozoic. Because the braincases of archosaurs are largely ossified, the group has particularly benefited from advances in non-destructive visualisation of endocranial structures over the past...Walsh, Stig A ; Knoll, F
Neurosensory evolution, Wulst, Dinosaur, Flocculus, and Bird