Works by Delfino, Massimo

Results: 74

First European evidence for transcontinental dispersal of Crocodylus (late Neogene of southern Italy).

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, v. 149, n. 3, p. 293, doi. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00248.x

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DELFINO, MASSIMO;
BÖHME, MADELAINE;
ROOK, LORENZO

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Article

An overview of the fossil turtles from Sardinia (Italy).

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Historical Biology, 2023, v. 35, n. 8, p. 1484, doi. 10.1080/08912963.2022.2098488

By:

Zoboli, Daniel;
Georgalis, Georgios L.;
Arca, Marisa;
Tuveri, Caterinella;
Carboni, Salvatore;
Lecca, Luciano;
Pillola, Gian Luigi;
Rook, Lorenzo;
Villani, Mauro;
Chesi, Francesco;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

A progressive extirpation: an overview of the fossil record of Salamandrina (Salamandridae, Urodela).

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Historical Biology, 2021, v. 33, n. 12, p. 3723, doi. 10.1080/08912963.2021.1888946

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Macaluso, Loredana;
Villa, Andrea;
Pitruzzella, Gaetano;
Rook, Lorenzo;
Carnevale, Giorgio;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

The amphibians and reptiles from the Early Pleistocene of Coste San Giacomo (Anagni Basin, Italy).

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Historical Biology, 2021, v. 33, n. 11, p. 3075, doi. 10.1080/08912963.2020.1849177

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Villa, Andrea;
Minnelli, Elisa;
Bona, Fabio;
Bellucci, Luca;
Sardella, Raffaele;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Trapped in a roman well: amphibians and reptiles from Tenuta Zuccarello near Marcon, Venice, Italy.

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Historical Biology, 2020, v. 32, n. 1, p. 55, doi. 10.1080/08912963.2018.1470170

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Villa, Andrea;
Bon, Mauro;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Early Miocene herpetofaunas from the Greek localities of Aliveri and Karydia – bridging a gap in the knowledge of amphibians and reptiles from the early Neogene of southeastern Europe.

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Historical Biology, 2019, v. 31, n. 8, p. 1045, doi. 10.1080/08912963.2017.1417404

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Georgalis, Georgios L.;
Villa, Andrea;
Ivanov, Martin;
Roussiakis, Socrates;
Skandalos, Panagiotis;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Evidence for a pre-PETM dispersal of the earliest European crocodyloids.

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Historical Biology, 2019, v. 31, n. 7, p. 845, doi. 10.1080/08912963.2017.1396323

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Delfino, Massimo;
Martin, Jeremy E.;
de Lapparent de Broin, France;
Smith, Thierry

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Article

First record of Latonia gigantea (Anura, Alytidae) from the Iberian Peninsula.

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Historical Biology, 2019, v. 31, n. 3, p. 371, doi. 10.1080/08912963.2017.1371712

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Villa, Andrea;
Delfino, Massimo;
Luján, Àngel H.;
Almécija, Sergio;
Alba, David M.

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Article

Fossil lizards and snakes from Ano Metochi – a diverse squamate fauna from the latest Miocene of northern Greece.

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Historical Biology, 2017, v. 29, n. 6, p. 730, doi. 10.1080/08912963.2016.1234619

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Georgalis, Georgios L.;
Villa, Andrea;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Revision of Varanus marathonensis (Squamata, Varanidae) based on historical and new material: morphology, systematics, and paleobiogeography of the European monitor lizards.

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PLoS ONE, 2018, v. 13, n. 12, p. 1, doi. 10.1371/journal.pone.0207719

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Villa, Andrea;
Abella, Juan;
Alba, David M.;
Almécija, Sergio;
Bolet, Arnau;
Koufos, George D.;
Knoll, Fabien;
Luján, Àngel H.;
Morales, Jorge;
Robles, Josep M.;
Sánchez, Israel M.;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

New material of Laophis crotaloides, an enigmatic giant snake from Greece, with an overview of the largest fossil European vipers.

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Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 2016, v. 109, n. 1, p. 103, doi. 10.1007/s00015-016-0210-y

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Georgalis, Georgios;
Szyndlar, Zbigniew;
Kear, Benjamin;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Phylogenetic value of jaw elements of lacertid lizards (Squamata: Lacertoidea): a case study with Oligocene material from France.

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Cladistics, 2021, v. 37, n. 6, p. 765, doi. 10.1111/cla.12460

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Wencker, Lukardis Charlotte Marie;
Tschopp, Emanuel;
Villa, Andrea;
Augé, Marc Louis;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Towards the origin of South African tortoises: a new Chersina species from the Early Pliocene fossil site of Langebaanweg.

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2024, v. 202, n. 3, p. 1, doi. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae146

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Delfino, Massimo;
Cohen, Brigette F;
Govender, Romala;
Haarhoff, Pippa;
Macaluso, Loredana;
Marino, Liana;
Matthews, Thalassa;
Wencker, Lukardis C M;
Pavia, Marco

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Article

A comparative atlas of selected skeletal elements of European urodeles (Amphibia: Urodela) for palaeontological investigations.

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2023, v. 197, n. 3, p. 569, doi. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac063

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Macaluso, Loredana;
Wencker, Lukardis C M;
Castrovilli, Maria;
Carnevale, Giorgio;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

last of the large-sized tortoises of the Mediterranean islands.

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2022, v. 196, n. 4, p. 1704, doi. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac044

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Valenti, Pietro;
Vlachos, Evangelos;
Kehlmaier, Christian;
Fritz, Uwe;
Georgalis, Georgios L;
Luján, Àngel Hernández;
Miccichè, Roberto;
Sineo, Luca;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Corrigendum: Reappraisal of the morphology and phylogenetic relationships of the alligatoroid crocodilian Diplocynodon hantoniensis from the late Eocene of the United Kingdom.

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2020, v. 188, n. 2, p. 653, doi. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz075

By:

Rio, Jonathan P;
Mannion, Philip D;
Tschopp, Emanuel;
Martin, Jeremy E;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Reappraisal of the morphology and phylogenetic relationships of the alligatoroid crocodylian Diplocynodon hantoniensis from the late Eocene of the United Kingdom.

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2020, v. 188, n. 2, p. 579, doi. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz034

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Rio, Jonathan P;
Mannion, Philip D;
Tschopp, Emanuel;
Martin, Jeremy E;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

A comparative atlas of the skull osteology of European lizards (Reptilia: Squamata).

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2019, v. 187, n. 3, p. 829, doi. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz035

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Villa, Andrea;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Comparative cranial osteology of Blanus (Squamata: Amphisbaenia).

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2019, v. 185, n. 3, p. 693, doi. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly082

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Villa, Andrea;
Kirchner, Martin;
Alba, David M;
Bernardini, Federico;
Bolet, Arnau;
Luján, Àngel H;
Fortuny, Josep;
Hipsley, Christy A;
Müller, Johannes;
Sindaco, Roberto;
Tuniz, Claudio;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

The first fossils of Timon (Squamata: Lacertinae) from Sardinia (Italy) and potential causes for its local extinction in the Pleistocene.

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2018, v. 184, n. 3, p. 825, doi. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly003

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Tschopp, Emanuel;
Villa, Andrea;
Camaiti, Marco;
Ferro, Letizia;
Tuveri, Caterinella;
Rook, Lorenzo;
Arca, Marisa;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Comparative cranial osteology of European gekkotans (Reptilia, Squamata).

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2018, v. 184, n. 3, p. 857, doi. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx104

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Villa, Andrea;
Daza, Juan D;
Bauer, Aaron M;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

The Miocene tortoise Testudo catalaunica Bataller, 1926, and a revised phylogeny of extinct species of genus Testudo (Testudines: Testudinidae).

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2016, v. 178, n. 2, p. 312, doi. 10.1111/zoj.12414

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Luján, Àngel H.;
Delfino, Massimo;
Robles, Josep M.;
Alba, David M.

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Article

New specimens of A llodaposuchus precedens from France: intraspecific variability and the diversity of European Late Cretaceous eusuchians.

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2016, v. 176, n. 3, p. 607, doi. 10.1111/zoj.12331

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Martin, Jeremy E.;
Delfino, Massimo;
Garcia, Géraldine;
Godefroit, Pascal;
Berton, Stéphane;
Valentin, Xavier

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Article

Late Palaeocene eusuchian remains from Mont de Berru, France, and the origin of the alligatoroid Diplocynodon.

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2014, v. 172, n. 4, p. 867, doi. 10.1111/zoj.12195

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Martin, Jeremy E.;
Smith, Thierry;
Lapparent de Broin, France;
Escuillié, Francois;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

A reassessment of the morphology and taxonomic status of ‘ Crocodylus’ depressifrons Blainville, 1855 (Crocodylia, Crocodyloidea) based on the Early Eocene remains from Belgium.

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2009, v. 156, n. 1, p. 140, doi. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00478.x

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DELFINO, MASSIMO;
SMITH, THIERRY

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Article

Past, present, and future climate space of the only endemic vertebrate genus of the Italian peninsula.

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Scientific Reports, 2021, v. 11, n. 1, p. 1, doi. 10.1038/s41598-021-01492-z

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Macaluso, Loredana;
Villa, Andrea;
Carnevale, Giorgio;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

A new species of Acynodon (Crocodylia) from the upper cretaceous (Santonian–Campanian) of Villaggio del Pescatore, Italy.

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Palaeontology, 2008, v. 51, n. 5, p. 1091, doi. 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00800.x

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DELFINO, MASSIMO;
MARTIN, JEREMY E.;
BUFFETAUT, ERIC

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Article

NEW DATA ON THE VERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGE OF FIUME SANTO (NORTH-WEST SARDINIA, ITALY), AND OVERVIEW ON THE LATE MIOCENE TUSCO-SARDINIAN PALAEOBIOPROVINCE.

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Palaeontology, 2008, v. 51, n. 2, p. 425, doi. 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00758.x

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Abbazzi, Laura;
Delfino, Massimo;
Gallai, Gianni;
Trebini, Luciano;
Rook, Lorenzo

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Article

An Amphisbaenian Skull from the European Miocene and the Evolution of Mediterranean Worm Lizards.

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PLoS ONE, 2014, v. 9, n. 6, p. 1, doi. 10.1371/journal.pone.0098082

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Bolet, Arnau;
Delfino, Massimo;
Fortuny, Josep;
Almécija, Sergio;
Robles, Josep M.;
Alba, David M.

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Article

How to Render Species Comparable Taxonomic Units Through Deep Time: A Case Study on Intraspecific Osteological Variability in Extant and Extinct Lacertid Lizards.

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Systematic Biology, 2022, v. 71, n. 4, p. 875, doi. 10.1093/sysbio/syab078

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Tschopp, Emanuel;
Napoli, James G;
Wencker, Lukardis C M;
Delfino, Massimo;
Upchurch, Paul

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Article

Skull osteology of Vipera walser (Squamata, Viperidae): Description, variability, ontogeny, and diagnostic characters in comparison to other Italian vipers.

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Journal of Morphology, 2021, v. 282, n. 1, p. 5, doi. 10.1002/jmor.21279

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Seghetti, Simone Matteo;
Villa, Andrea;
Tschopp, Emanuel;
Bernardini, Federico;
Laddaga, Lorenzo;
Fanelli, Mauro;
Levi, Renzo;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Osteology of the Italian endemic spectacled salamanders, Salamandrina spp. (Amphibia, Urodela, Salamandridae): selected skeletal elements for palaeontological investigations.

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Journal of Morphology, 2020, v. 281, n. 11, p. 1391, doi. 10.1002/jmor.21254

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Macaluso, Loredana;
Villa, Andrea;
Pitruzzella, Gaetano;
Rook, Lorenzo;
Pogoda, Peter;
Kupfer, Alexander;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Skull osteology and osteological phylogeny of the Western whip snake Hierophis viridiflavus (Squamata, Colubridae).

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Journal of Morphology, 2020, v. 281, n. 7, p. 808, doi. 10.1002/jmor.21148

By:

Racca, Luca;
Villa, Andrea;
Wencker, Lukardis C. M.;
Camaiti, Marco;
Blain, Hugues‐Alexandre;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Expanded phylogeny elucidates Deinosuchus relationships, crocodylian osmoregulation and body-size evolution.

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Communications Biology, 2025, v. 8, n. 1, p. 1, doi. 10.1038/s42003-025-07653-4

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Walter, Jules D.;
Massonne, Tobias;
Paiva, Ana Laura S.;
Martin, Jeremy E.;
Delfino, Massimo;
Rabi, Márton

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Article

Archosauriform footprints in the Lower Triassic of Western Alps and their role in understanding the effects of the Permian-Triassic hyperthermal.

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PeerJ, 2020, p. 1, doi. 10.7717/peerj.10522

By:

Petti, Fabio Massimo;
Furrer, Heinz;
Collo, Enrico;
Martinetto, Edoardo;
Bernardi, Massimo;
Delfino, Massimo;
Romano, Marco;
Piazza, Michele

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Article

Remains of Leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, at Mid-Late Holocene archaeological sites in coastal Oman: clues of past worlds.

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PeerJ, 2018, p. 1, doi. 10.7717/peerj.6123

By:

Frazier, John G.;
Azzarà, Valentina;
Munoz, Olivia;
Marcucci, Lapo Gianni;
Badel, Emilie;
Genchi, Francesco;
Cattani, Maurizio;
Tosi, Maurizio;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Old African fossils provide new evidence for the origin of the American crocodiles.

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Scientific Reports, 2020, v. 10, n. 1, p. 1, doi. 10.1038/s41598-020-68482-5

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Delfino, Massimo;
Iurino, Dawid A.;
Mercurio, Bruno;
Piras, Paolo;
Rook, Lorenzo;
Sardella, Raffaele

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Article

New diverse amphibian and reptile assemblages from the late Neogene of northern Greece provide novel insights into the emergence of extant herpetofaunas of the southern Balkans.

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Swiss Journal of Paleontology, 2024, v. 143, n. 1, p. 1, doi. 10.1186/s13358-024-00332-7

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Georgalis, Georgios L.;
Villa, Andrea;
Ivanov, Martin;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Correction to: Turtle remains from the late Miocene of the Cessaniti area, southern Italy—insights for a probable Tortonian chelonian dispersal from Europe to Africa.

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2020

By:

Georgalis, Georgios L.;
Insacco, Gianni;
Rook, Lorenzo;
Spadola, Filippo;
Delfino, Massimo

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Correction Notice

Turtle remains from the late Miocene of the Cessaniti area, southern Italy—insights for a probable Tortonian chelonian dispersal from Europe to Africa.

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Swiss Journal of Paleontology, 2020, v. 139, n. 1, p. 1, doi. 10.1186/s13358-020-00202-y

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Georgalis, Georgios L.;
Insacco, Gianni;
Rook, Lorenzo;
Spadola, Filippo;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Fossil lizards and worm lizards (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Neogene and Quaternary of Europe: an overview.

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Swiss Journal of Paleontology, 2019, v. 138, n. 2, p. 177, doi. 10.1007/s13358-018-0172-y

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Villa, Andrea;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

AN OVERVIEW OF THE LATE MIOCENE VERTEBRATES FROM THE FISSURE FILLINGS OF MONTICINO QUARRY (BRISIGHELLA, ITALY), WITH NEW DATA ON NON-MAMMALIAN TAXA.

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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2021, v. 127, n. 2, p. 297

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VILLA, ANDREA;
CARNEVALE, GIORGIO;
PAVIA, MARCO;
ROOK, LORENZO;
SAMI, MARCO;
SZYNDLAR, ZBIGNIEW;
DELFINO, MASSIMO

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Article

A NEW CRANIUM OF CROCODYLUS ANTHROPOPHAGUS FROM OLDUVAI GORGE, NORTHERN TANZANIA.

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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2021, v. 127, n. 2, p. 275

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AZZARÀ, BEATRICE;
BOSCHIAN, GIOVANNI;
BROCHU, CHRISTOPHER A.;
DELFINO, MASSIMO;
IURINO, DAWID A.;
KIMAMBO, JACKSON S.;
MANZI, GIORGIO;
MASAO, FIDELIS T.;
MENCONERO, SOFIA;
NJAU, JACKSON K.;
CHERIN, MARCO

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Article

THE OCCURRENCE OF EOCENOCHELUS (TESTUDINES, PLEURODIRA) FROM SARDINIA SUPPORTS PALAEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PROXIMITY OF THE ISLAND TO CONTINENTAL WESTERN EUROPE DURING THE EOCENE.

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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2020, v. 126, n. 3, p. 833

By:

GEORGALIS, GEORGIOS L.;
ZOBOLI, DANIEL;
PÉREZ-GARCÍA, ADÁN;
LUIGI PILLOLA, GIAN;
DELFINO, MASSIMO

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Article

FOSSO DELLA FITTAIA: THE OLDEST TUSCO-SARDINIAN LATE MIOCENE ENDEMIC VERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGES (BACCINELLO-CINIGIANO BASIN, TUSCANY, ITALY).

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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2016, v. 122, n. 2, p. 13

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CIRILLI, OMAR;
BENVENUTI, MARCO G.;
CARNEVALE, GIORGIO;
VILAR, ISAAC CASANOVAS;
DELFINO, MASSIMO;
FURIÓ, MARC;
PAPINI, MAURO;
VILLA, ANDREA;
ROOK, LORENZO

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Article

A giant crocodile in the Dubois Collection from the Pleistocene of Kali Gedeh (Java).

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Integrative Zoology, 2014, v. 9, n. 2, p. 141, doi. 10.1111/1749-4877.12065

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DELFINO, Massimo;
DE VOS, John

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Article

Structural and environmental constraints on reduction of paired appendages among vertebrates.

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2019, v. 128, n. 2, p. 473, doi. 10.1093/biolinnean/blz097

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Macaluso, Loredana;
Carnevale, Giorgio;
Casu, Raffaello;
Pietrocola, Daniel;
Villa, Andrea;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article

Expansion after expansion: dissecting the phylogeography of the widely distributed spur-thighed tortoise, Testudo graeca (Testudines: Testudinidae).

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2017, v. 121, n. 3, p. 641, doi. 10.1093/biolinnean/blx007

By:

GRACIÁ, EVA;
VARGAS-RAMÍREZ, MARIO;
DELFINO, MASSIMO;
ANADÓN, JOSÉ D.;
GIMÉNEZ, ANDRÉS;
FAHD, SOUMIA;
CORTI, CLAUDIA;
JDEIDI, TAREK B.;
FRITZ, UWE

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Article

An integrative approach to examining a homology question: shell structures in soft-shell turtles.

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2010, v. 99, n. 2, p. 462, doi. 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01356.x

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DELFINO, MASSIMO;
SCHEYER, TORSTEN M.;
FRITZ, UWE;
SÁNCHEZ-VILLAGRA, MARCELO R.

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Article

Descriptive osteology and patterns of limb loss of the European limbless skink Ophiomorus punctatissimus (Squamata, Scincidae).

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Journal of Anatomy, 2019, v. 235, n. 2, p. 313, doi. 10.1111/joa.13017

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Camaiti, Marco;
Villa, Andrea;
Wencker, Lukardis C. M.;
Bauer, Aaron M.;
Stanley, Edward L.;
Delfino, Massimo

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Article