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Figueirido, B, Tucker, S & Lautenschlager, S 2024, 'Comparing cranial biomechanics between Barbourofelis fricki and Smilodon fatalis: Is there a universal killing‐bite among saber‐toothed predators?', The Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25451
Meade, L, Pittman, M, Balanoff, A & Lautenschlager, S 2024, 'Cranial functional specialisation for strength precedes morphological evolution in Oviraptorosauria', Communications Biology, vol. 7, no. 1, 436. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06137-1
Shelbourne, CD & Lautenschlager, S 2024, 'Morphological diversity of saber‐tooth upper canines and its functional implications', The Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25458
Lautenschlager, S, Aston, RF, Baron, JL, Boyd, JR, Bridger, HWL, Carmona, VET, Ducrey, T, Eccles, O, Gall, M, Jones, SA, Laker-Mchugh, H, Lawrenson, DJ, Mascarenhas, KJ, Mcschnutz, E, Quinn, JD, Robson, TE, Stöhr, PW, Strahl, EJ, Tokeley, RR, Weston, F, Wallace, KJ, Whitehouse, T, Bird, CM & Dunne, EM 2024, 'Orbit size and estimated eye size in dinosaurs and other archosaurs and their implications for the evolution of visual capabilities', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2295518
Dearden, RP, Jones, AS, Giles, S, Lanzetti, A, Grohganz, M, Johanson, Z, Lautenschlager, S, Randle, E, Donoghue, PCJ & Sansom, I 2024, 'The three-dimensionally articulated oral apparatus of a Devonian heterostracan sheds light on feeding in Palaeozoic jawless fishes', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 291, no. 2019, 20232258. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2258
Ruiz, J, Ferreira, G, Lautenschlager, S, de Castro, M & Montefeltro, F 2023, 'Different, but the same: Inferring the hunting behaviour of the hypercarnivorous bush dog (Speothos venaticus) through finite element analysis', Journal of Anatomy, vol. 242, no. 4, pp. 553-567. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13804
Fawcett, MJ, Lautenschlager, S, Bestwick, J & Butler, RJ 2023, 'Functional morphology of the Triassic apex predator Saurosuchus galilei (Pseudosuchia: Loricata) and convergence with a post‐Triassic theropod dinosaur', The Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25299
Lautenschlager, S, Fagan, M, Luo, Z-X, Bird, C, Gill, P & Rayfield, E 2023, 'Functional reorganisation of the cranial skeleton during the cynodont–mammaliaform transition', Communications Biology, vol. 6, 367. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04742-0
Button, D, Porro, L, Lautenschlager, S, Jones, M & Barrett, P 2023, 'Multiple pathways to herbivory underpinned deep divergences in ornithischian evolution', Current Biology, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 557-565.E7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.12.019
Dearden, R, Lanzetti, A, Giles, S, Johanson, Z, Jones, A, Lautenschlager, S, Randle, E & Sansom, I 2023, 'The oldest three-dimensionally preserved vertebrate neurocranium', Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06538-y
Herbst, EC, Meade, LE, Lautenschlager, S, Fioritti, N & Scheyer, TM 2022, 'A toolbox for the retrodeformation and muscle reconstruction of fossil specimens in Blender', Royal Society Open Science, vol. 9, no. 8, 220519. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220519
Lautenschlager, S 2022, 'Functional and ecomorphological evolution of orbit shape in Mesozoic archosaurs is driven by body size and diet', Communications Biology, vol. 5, no. 1, 754. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03706-0
Ma, WS, Pittman, M, Butler, R & Lautenschlager, S 2022, 'Macroevolutionary trends in theropod dinosaur feeding mechanics', Current Biology, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 677-686.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.11.060
Holliday, CM, Sellers, KC, Lessner, EJ, Middleton, KM, Cranor, C, Verhulst, CD, Lautenschlager, S, Bader, K, Brown, MA & Colbert, MW 2022, 'New frontiers in imaging, anatomy and mechanics of crocodylian jaw muscles', The Anatomical Record, vol. 305, no. 10, pp. 3016-3030. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25011
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Ferreira, G, Werneburg, I, Lautenschlager, S & Evers, S 2022, Contrasting brains and bones: neuroanatomical evolution of turtles (Testudinata). in MT Dozo, A Paulina-Carabajal, TE Macrini & S Walsh (eds), Paleoneurology of amniotes: new directions in the study of fossil endocasts. 1 edn, pp. 79-121. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13983-3_4
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