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James M. Neenan
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 31
Citations - 746
James M. Neenan is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Placodont & Sauropterygia. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 31 publications receiving 545 citations. Previous affiliations of James M. Neenan include University of the Witwatersrand & University of New England (Australia).
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European origin of placodont marine reptiles and the evolution of crushing dentition in Placodontia
TL;DR: A new, exceptionally preserved skull of a juvenile stem placodont from the early Middle Triassic of the Netherlands is reported, thus indicating a western Tethyan (European) origin for Placodontia, the most basal group of sauropterygians.
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Evolution of the Sauropterygian Labyrinth with Increasingly Pelagic Lifestyles.
James M. Neenan,Tobias Reich,Serjoscha W. Evers,Patrick S. Druckenmiller,Dennis F. A. E. Voeten,Jonah N. Choiniere,Paul M. Barrett,Paul M. Barrett,Stephanie E. Pierce,Roger B. J. Benson,Roger B. J. Benson +10 more
TL;DR: This study presents the first virtual reconstructions of plesiosaur endosseous labyrinths and the first large-scale, quantitative study detailing the effects of increasingly aquatic lifestyles on labyrinth morphology among marine reptiles.
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Bony labyrinth morphology clarifies the origin and evolution of deer
Bastien Mennecart,Daniel DeMiguel,Daniel DeMiguel,Faysal Bibi,Gertrud E. Rössner,Grégoire Métais,James M. Neenan,Shiqi Wang,Georg Schulz,Bert Müller,Loïc Costeur +10 more
TL;DR: The shape of the bony labyrinth in 29 species of living and fossil deer is examined using 3D geometric morphometrics and cladistics to clarify several issues of the origin and evolution of cervids and confirm for the first time the monophyly of the Old World Capreolinae based on morphological characters only.
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Feeding biomechanics in Acanthostega and across the fish–tetrapod transition
TL;DR: It is concluded that Acanthostega retained a primitively aquatic lifestyle and did not possess cranial adaptations for terrestrial feeding, suggesting a slow tempo of morphological and biomechanical changes in the transition from Devonian tetrapod jaws to aquatic/semi-aquatic Carboniferous tetrapid jaws.
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Neurovascular anatomy of the protostegid turtle Rhinochelys pulchriceps and comparisons of membranous and endosseous labyrinth shape in an extant turtle
Serjoscha W. Evers,Serjoscha W. Evers,James M. Neenan,Gabriel S. Ferreira,Gabriel S. Ferreira,Ingmar Werneburg,Paul M. Barrett,Roger B. J. Benson +7 more
TL;DR: This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.