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Rainer R. Schoch
Researcher at Museum für Naturkunde
Publications - 154
Citations - 4083
Rainer R. Schoch is an academic researcher from Museum für Naturkunde. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dissorophoidea & Temnospondyli. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 139 publications receiving 3561 citations. Previous affiliations of Rainer R. Schoch include Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart & Humboldt University of Berlin.
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Integration of molecules and new fossils supports a Triassic origin for Lepidosauria (lizards, snakes, and tuatara)
Marc E. H. Jones,Marc E. H. Jones,Cajsa Lisa Anderson,Christy A. Hipsley,Johannes Müller,Susan E. Evans,Rainer R. Schoch +6 more
TL;DR: A Early/Middle Triassic date for the origin of Lepidosauria disagrees with previous estimates deep within the Permian and suggests the group evolved as part of the faunal recovery after the end-Permain mass extinction as the climate became more humid.
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A Middle Triassic stem-turtle and the evolution of the turtle body plan
TL;DR: A new reptile, Pappochelys, is reported that is structurally and chronologically intermediate between Eunotosaurus and Odontochelys and dates from the Middle Triassic period (∼240 million years ago), providing new evidence that the plastron partly formed through serial fusion of gastralia.
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The evolution of major temnospondyl clades: an inclusive phylogenetic analysis
TL;DR: Phylogenetic analysis of a large dataset focuses on the in-group relationships of temnospondyls, the largest lower tetrapod clade, and found the following groups were unequivocally found to be monophyletic: Edopoidea (node), Dvinosauria (stem, excl. Brachyopidae), DissorophoideA ( node), Eryopidae (stem), and Stereosponyli (node).
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Postcranial Anatomy of the Rauisuchian Archosaur Batrachotomus kupferzellensis
David J. Gower,Rainer R. Schoch +1 more
TL;DR: Batrachotomus kupferzellensis is an upper Middle Triassic (Late Ladinian) rauisuchian archosaur that is well-represented by fossil material, including the holotype, from the localities of KupferZell, Crailsheim and Vellberg-Eschenau in southern Germany, and is described here in detail for the first time.
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The Cranial Osteology and Feeding Ecology of the Metriorhynchid Crocodylomorph Genera Dakosaurus and Plesiosuchus from the Late Jurassic of Europe
Mark T. Young,Stephen L. Brusatte,Stephen L. Brusatte,Marco Brandalise de Andrade,Julia Brenda Desojo,Brian L. Beatty,Lorna Steel,Marta S. Fernández,Manabu Sakamoto,José Ignacio Ruiz-Omeñaca,Rainer R. Schoch +10 more
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that trophic specialisation enabled these two large-bodied species to coexist in the same ecosystem and is supported by Plesiosuchus manselii having a very large optimum gape, while Dakosaurus maximus possesses craniomandibular characteristics observed in extant suction-feeding odontocetes.