• 19. March 2024: The new Natural History Museum of the University of Zurich opened its doors with a new exhibit!
• March 2024: Dylan and Torsten co-authored with Christian Klug from PIMUZ and Feiko Miedema and Erin Maxwell from SMNS on a new Middle Jurassic ichthyosaur in BMC Ecol Evol
• March 2024: Ahh, time's running to fast...forgot to list all the papers here that came out recently... please see list below  :-)
• February 2024: Torsten co-authored a paper on the dental wear analysis of Triassic placodont teeth in Swiss J Palaeontol
• January 2024: Happy New Year - Prof. Dr. Julia Desojo joined the lab for three months - welcome!
• Chiara finished her Masters Project in the lab - congratulations!
• November 2023: Dylan and Torsten co-authored a paper on the enigmatic Wapitisaurus from British Columbia in R Soc Open Sci and Torsten co-authored a study on the side-necked turtle genus Chelus in C R Palevol
• November 2023: Torsten co-authored a paper on the bone histology of two stem turtles in CR Palevol, including Proganochelys material from Frick
• there were a couple of papers out with lab collaboration, which I somehow lost track of mentioning here...oh well  :-) Please see list below
• November 2023: Dr. Jordan Bestwick joins the lab as SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellow. Congratulations and welcome!
• September 2023: Dylan successfully defended his thesis on thalattosaurs. Congratulations!
• April 2023: Torsten and Dylan coauthored a paper on a forged "chimera" turtle from Brasil including parts of cryptodiran sea turtle and a pleurodiran turtle. The article was published in Swiss J Palaentol
• March 2023: Ashley and Torsten, among others, published on the inner ear of extant limbed squamates in BMC Ecol Evol
• March 2023: Torsten collborated on a paper (with Wei and Stephan) on a new long-necked tanystropheid from China in The Anatomical Record
• Jan 2023: Eva left our working group to start a new Postdoc at the Laboratory for Orthopaedic Technology at ETHZ - congratulations!
• November 2022: Torsten participated in a discussion round on evolution and religion at the hoch3 in Witikon
• November 2022: Torsten collaborated on a paper on bone microanatomy of subterranean mammals, published in Evolution Letters
• October 2022: Nicole, Nani and Torsten co-authored, together with colleagues from Frick and Fribourg, an article on the oldest fossil turtle from Switzerland, Proganochelys quenstedtii in Swiss J Palaeontol
• August 2022: Eva, with colleagues from Lausanne and London, published on the joint range of motion method in J Anat, and another in J Anat on the fire salamander - congratulations!
• August 2022: Eva just published on new Blender tools to help retrodeformation and muscle reconstruction of fossils in Royal Society Open Science. You can also find the Twitter thread here
• July 2022: Nicole and Torsten pubished on a new species of pachypleurosaur from the Middle Triassic of Canton Grissons. The Keystone media article can be found here
• June 2022: A new "HORIZONS - The Swiss Research Magazine" article (133 June 2022) featured PIMUZ fossils
• April 2022: Georgios and Torsten published on a snake fossil from the Swiss Molasse
• Jan-Mar 2022: There were a couple of papers out, co-authored by Torsten, incl. an osteoderm-bearing rib from the Triassic, otoliths from the Peruvian Amazon, and new data on Placodus from Winterswijk. 
• Nov-Dez 2021: Torsten joined a 5 week field campaign to the Aldabra atoll in the Indian Ocean
• Dezember 2021: Torsten co-authored a paper on a historical vertebrate collection from the Peruvian Amazon
• November 2021: Eva, Dylan and Torsten co-authored an article on modeling tooth enamel in FEA in iScience
• August 2021: Eva published on a method to separate cortical from trabecular bone tissue using CT data - congratulations!
• August 2021: Georgios co-authored an osteological and taxonomic overview work on Paleogene snakes from Europe - congratulations!
• July 2021: Nicole and Torsten co-authored a couple of book chapters on the histology of placodonts, pachypleurosaurs and nothosaurs
• July 2021: Tobias and Torsten co-authored a paper on the enigmatic placodont Henodus chelyops using Synchrotron CT data.
• June 2021: Georgios published on the first pan-Trionychid turtle from Africa and on an insular testudinoid fauna of Late Miocene age
• May 2021: Torsten co-authored a paper on the cranial anatomy of the Middle Triassic ichthyosaur Besanosaurus leptorhynchus
• April 2021: The last chapter of Stephan's PhD thesis on the "protorosaur" phylogeny has just been published in PeerJ. Congratulations!
• April 2021: Dr. Nicole Klein joined the lab for a six month PostDoc. Welcome!
• April 2021: Over the past months, Georgios published five papers on lizards, turtles and a new fossil site in Venezuela (Torsten was also involved in the latter). Congratulations!
• March 2021: The studies on Stupendemys and Tanystropheus are among the top three most popular media releases of the University of Zurich (1/2021)
• February 2021: Stephan published a ScienceBreaker popular article on Tanystropheus
• January 2021: Dylan and Eva participated in the SICB Virtiual Annual Meeting 2021. Eva also won one of the Division of Morphology's D. Dwight Davis Award for outstanding oral presentationa. Congratulations!
• Dezember 16th 2020: Torsten co-authored a study on the antiquity of cervid antler regenerative cycle in The Science of Nature.
• November 2020: Stephan and Torsten co-authored a study on the cranial anatomy of Tanystropheus hydroides in PeerJ.
• Nov 6th-7th 2020: Dylan, Eva, and Torsten participated in the virtual SGM Zurich & Eva won the Paleoprize for junior scientists - cheers!
• November 2020: Georgios published on the pleurodiran turtle Eocenochelus from the Eocene of Sardinia in Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia.
• September 2020: Georgios published on Python remains from a Miocene hominid site in Turkey
• September 15th 2020: Alexandre Torchet joind the lab as Masters student - welcome!
• September 1st 2020: Georgios Georgalis joined the lab as a postdoc - welcome!
• August 2020: Torsten co-authored a paper on new placodont remains from the Triassic of Hungary in Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironment.
• Learn more on Eva's work and her motivation to study palaeontology and biomechanics on Real Scientists DE and Twitter Homepage (in German).
• August 2020: Dylan co-authored a paper on cranial pathologies in a Cretaceous mosasaur skull in Cretaceous Research.
• August 2020: Eva co-authored a paper on hummingbird biomechanics in Royal Society Open Science. Here is a link to Science News
• July/August 2020: two publications on the skulls of Macrocnemus andTanystropheus using high-res Synchrotron Data were published in Scientific Reports and Current Biology with Feiko and Stephan as first authors respectively. Here is a link to the CNN news and BBC Science Focus articles
• July 17th 2020: Stephan successfully defended his PhD thesis; he is now moving on to a Postdoc at the NHM in London - congratulations!
• July 15th 2020: Eva successfully defended her PhD thesis in London - congratulations!
• June 2020: Yohan successfully defended his MSc in Paris and will move on to a poctoral position in Lyon. Congratulations!
• May 2020: together with our colleagues Li Chun and Wang Wei at IVPP in Beijing, Stephan, Feiko and Torsten re-described the holotype of Macrocnemus fuyuanensis in Vertebrata PalAsiatica
• May 2020: In collaboration with members of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, UZH, and the Institute for Biomechanics ETHZ, Eva and Dylan received a Graduate Campus (GRC) Grant for organising a joint workshop "Finite Element Analysis: Modeling Biological Functional Complexes" - congratulations!
• March 2020: Stephan and Torsten co-authored a study on tiny Colobops from the Triassic, reinterpreting the taxon as a rhynchocephalian
• March-June2020: "homeoffice" and "homeschool" are dominating the daily routine of the lab members - stay save and healthy everywhere!
• February 2020: Torsten co-authored a paper on the dimorphic shells of the giant freshwater turtle Stupendemys geographicus from South America
• January 2020: Our lab published a couple of chapters in the new Staringia 16 on the fauna from Winterswijk, The Netherlands
• January 2020: Torsten co-authored a paper on the first crown-member of Crocodylia with three sacrals
• December 2020: Stephan and Torsten published a taxonomic revision of the enigmatic long-necked Tanystropheus
• December 2019: Eva Herbst just joined our lab in Zurich as a Postdoc.Welcome!
• November 23rd 2019: Stephan won the Paleoprize for junior scientists at this year's SGM in Fribourg - cheers!
• November 22nd-23rd 2019: Dylan, Stephan and Torsten participated in the Swiss Geosci Meeting in Fribourg
• August 31st 2019: Birdly flight simulator "Jurassic Flight" from SOMNIACS was at PIMUZ during the SCIENTIFICA 2019
• July 22nd-25th: Feiko, Stephan and Torsten participated in the ICVM meeting in Prague; Torsten was also at ISPH Cape Town (July 31st - August 4th)
• July 18th 2019: Torsten co-authored a paper on the bone histology of the stem-turtle Pappochelys
• June 4th 2019: Torsten co-authored a paper on Eocene squamates from Dielsdorf. Here is a link to the Tagesanzeiger press release
• May 2019: Marta starts a PhD in the group of Prof. Christian Klug at PIMUZ - congratulations!
• March 5th 2019: Torsten participated as scientific supervisor at Exposure Young Mind's Science Film Day at the Zool./Palaeonol. Museum, UZH
• February 2019: Nanni Mautner's work on the pancake tortoise (Malacochersus) published in 2017 was one of Wiley's top cited articles in J Morphol
• February 2019: Marta co-authored an article on the skull network complexity of T. rex
• January 2019: Wei published a new species of the placodont Cyamodus from China
• January 2019: Christian will start a new job in Germany - congratulations!
• December 2018: Wei published on a new adult specimen of Sinocyamodus from China
• December 2018: Stephan published on a new specimen of Prolacerta from Antarctica
• Nov 30th-December1st 2018: Torsten participated in the Swiss Geosci Meeting in Bern
• November 2018: Ashley found a new job in Australia - congratulations!
• September 2018: Stephan left for field work and collections visit in South Africa
• Septmeber 1st 2018: Feiko Miedema joined the lab for a part-time Master project - welcome!
• August 1st 2018: Dylan Bastiaans joined the lab as doctoral student - welcome!
• July 9th-13th 2018: Torsten attended the "fossil week", International Palaeontological Congress IPC in Paris
• May-June 2018: Stephan and Torsten went to Beijing (IVPP and PKU) to study protorosaurs
• May 7th 2018: Ashley defended successfully her thesis and left (again) for Australia
• April 2018: New SNF project "Thalattosauriform reptiles in Triassic marine ecosystems" started
• April 2018: SNF funded project "Sensory Palaeoecology in Secondary Aquatic Reptiles” came to its conclusion
• January 2018 - NATURE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS: Extinct crocodile tackled challenging prey
• January 18th 2018: Torsten gave invited talk at Univ. of Bonn, Germany on the Late Miocene Megafauna of Venezuela

Isabel Klusman from the Zoological Museum and Stephan experience "Jurassic Flight" on Birdly (picture on the right kindly provided by Dylan)

• Gere, K., A. L. Nagy, T. M. Scheyer, I. Werneburg, and A. Ősi. 2024. Complex dental wear analysis reveals dietary shift in Triassic placodonts (Sauropsida, Sauropterygia). Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 143:4 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-024-00304-x].
• Klug, C., S. N. F. Spiekman, D. Bastiaans, B. Scheffold, and T. M. Scheyer. 2024. The marine conservation deposits of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland, Italy): the prototype of Triassic black shale Lagerstätten. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 143:11 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-024-00308-7].
• Miedema, F., D. Bastiaans, T. M. Scheyer, C. Klug, and E. E. Maxwell. 2024. A large new Middle Jurassic ichthyosaur shows the importance of body size evolution in the origin of the Ophthalmosauria. BMC Ecology and Evolution 24:34 [doi: 10.1186/s12862-024-02208-3].
• Sprumont, H., F. Allione, F. Schwab, B. Wang, C. Mucingat, I. Lunati, T. Scheyer, A. Ijspeert, and A. Jusufi. 2024. Asymmetric fin shape changes swimming dynamics of ancient marine reptiles’ soft robophysical models. bioRxiv [doi: 10.1101/2024.02.15.580532].

• Bastiaans, D., V. Buffa, and T. M. Scheyer. 2023. To glide or to swim? A reinvestigation of the enigmatic Wapitisaurus problematicus (Reptilia) from the Early Triassic of British Columbia, Canada. Royal Society Open Science 10: 231171 [doi: 10.1098/rsos.231171].
• Cadena, E.-A., A. Link, A. Vanegas, C. A. Avellaneda-Otero, C. Perdomo, D. A. Urueña-Carrillo, R. Sánchez, R. Vanegas, T. M. Scheyer, and J. D. Carrillo-Briceño. 2023. New insights into the fossil record of the turtle genus Chelus Duméril, 1806 including new specimens with information on the cervicals and limb bones. Comptes Rendus Palevol 22:689-709 [doi: 10.5852/cr-palevol2023v22a34].
• Klein, N., P. M. Sander, J. Liu, P. S. Druckenmiller, E. Metz, N. P. Kelley, and T. M. Scheyer. 2023. Comparative bone histology of two thalattosaurians (Diapsida: Thalattosauria): Askeptosaurus italicus from the Alpine Triassic (Middle Triassic) and a Thalattosauroidea indet. from the Carnian of Oregon (Late Triassic). Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 142:15 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-023-00277-3].
• Laboury, A., T. M. Scheyer, N. Klein, T. L. Stubbs, and V. Fischer. 2023. High phenotypic plasticity at the dawn of the sauropterygian radiation. PeerJ 11:e15776 [doi: 10.7717/peerj.15776].
• Latimer, A. E., E. Sherratt, T. Bonnet, and T. M. Scheyer. 2023. Semicircular canal shape diversity among modern lepidosaurs: Life habit, size, allometry. BMC Ecology and Evolution 23:10 [doi: 10.1186/s12862-023-02113-1].
• Miedema, F., G. Bindellini, C. Dal Sasso, T. M. Scheyer, and E. E. Maxwell. 2023. Ontogenetic variation in the cranium of Mixosaurus cornalianus, with implications for the evolution of ichthyosaurian cranial development. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 142:27 (doi: 10.1186/s13358-023-00289-z).
• Miedema, F., N. Klein, D. G. Blackburn, P. M. Sander, E. E. Maxwell, E. M. Griebeler, and T. M. Scheyer. 2023. Heads or tails first? Evolution of fetal orientation in ichthyosaurs, with a scrutiny of the prevailing hypothesis. BMC Ecology and Evolution:23:12 [doi: 10.1186/s12862-023-02110-4].
• Ponce, D. A., T. M. Scheyer, I. A. Cerda, and J. B. Desojo. 2023. Palaeobiological inferences of "rauisichians" Fasolasuchus tenax (Los Colorados Fm., Argentina) and Prestosuchus chiniquensis (Santa Maria Super sequence, Brazil) from the Middle-Upper Triassic of South America based on microstructural analyses. Journal of Anatomy 243(6): 893-909 [doi: 10.1111/joa.13937].
• Scheyer, T. M., G. R. Oliveira, P. S. R. Romano, D. Bastiaans, L. Falco, G. S. Ferreira, and M. Rabi. 2023. A forged ‘chimera’ including the second specimen of the protostegid sea turtle Santanachelys gaffneyi and shell parts of the pleurodire Araripemys from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Group of Brazil. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 142:6 [doi: 0.1186/s13358-023-00271-9].
• Szczygielski, T., N. Klein, J. Słowiak-Morkovina, and T. M. Scheyer. 2023. Limb histology of the Triassic stem turtles Proterochersis porebensis Szczygielski & Sulej, 2016 and Proganochelys quenstedtii Baur, 1887 with insights into growth patterns of early turtles. Comptes Rendus Palevol 22:635-665 [doi: 10.5852/cr-palevol2023v22a32].

• Wang, W., S. N. F. Spiekman, L. Zhao, O. Rieppel, T. M. Scheyer, N. C. Fraser, and C. Li. 2023. A new long-necked archosauromorph from the Guanling Formation (Anisian, Middle Triassic) of southwestern China and its implications for neck evolution in tanystropheids. The Anatomical Record [doi: 10.1002/ar.25216] (in press).

• Amson, E., T. M. Scheyer, Q. Martinez, A. H. Schwermann, D. Koyabu, K. He, and R. Ziegler. 2022. Unique bone microanatomy reveals ancestry of subterranean specializations in mammals. Evolution letters 6:552-561 [doi: 10.1002/evl3.303].

• Georgalis, G. L., and T. M. Scheyer. 2022. Crushed but not lost: a colubriform snake (Serpentes) from the Miocene Swiss Molasse, identified through the use of micro-CT scanning technology. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 115:15 [doi: 10.1186/s00015-022-00417-w].

• Herbst, E. C., E. A. Eberhard, C. T. Richards, and J. R. Hutchinson. 2022. In vivo and ex vivo range of motion in the fire salamander Salamandra salamandra. Journal of Anatomy [doi: 10.1111/joa.13738] (in press).

• Herbst, E. C., E. A. Eberhard, J. R. Hutchinson, and C. T. Richards. 2022. Spherical frame projections for visualising joint range of motion, and a complementary method to capture mobility data. Journal of Anatomy [doi: 10.1111/joa.13717] (in press).

• Herbst, E. C., L. E. Meade, S. Lautenschlager, N. Fioretti, and T. M. Scheyer. 2022. A toolbox for the retrodeformation and muscle reconstruction of fossil specimens in Blender. Royal Society Open Science:9: 220519 [doi: 10.1098/rsos.220519].

• Klein, N., T. Wintrich, H. Hagdorn, D. Spiller, H. Winkelhorst, G. Goris, and T. M. Scheyer. 2022. Placodus (Placodontia, Sauropterygia) dentaries from Winterswijk, The Netherlands (middle Anisian) and Hünfeld, Hesse, Germany (late Anisian) with comments on ontogenetic changes. PalZ  96:289-302 [doi: 10.1007/s12542-022-00614-w].

• Klein, N., H. Furrer, I. Ehrbahr, M. Torres Ladeira, H. Richter, and T. M. Scheyer. 2022. A new pachypleurosaur from the Early Ladinian Prosanto Formation in the Eastern Alps of Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 141:12 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-022-00254-2].

• Scheyer, T. M., U. Oberli, N. Klein, and H. Furrer. 2022. A large osteoderm-bearing rib from the Upper Triassic Kössen Formation (Norian/Rhaetian) of eastern Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 141:1 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-022-00244-4].

• Scheyer, T. M., N. Klein, S. W. Evers, A.-K. Mautner, and B. Pabst. 2022. First evidence of Proganochelys quenstedtii (Testudinata) from the Plateosaurus bonebeds (Norian, Late Triassic) of Frick, Canton Aargau, Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 141:17 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-022-00260-4].

• Schwarzhans, W. W., O. A. Aguilera, T. M. Scheyer, and J. D. Carrillo-Briceño. 2022. Fish otoliths from the middle Miocene Pebas Formation of the Peruvian Amazon. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 141:2 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-022-00243-5].

• Bindellini, G., A. Wolniewicz, F. Miedema, T. M. Scheyer, and C. Dal Sasso. 2021. Cranial anatomy of Besanosaurus leptorhynchus Dal Sasso and Pinna, 1996 from the Besano Formation (Anisian-Ladinian, Middle Triassic) of Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland/Italy: taxonomic and palaeobiological implications. PeerJ 9: e11179 [doi: 10.7717/peerj.11179].

• Carrillo-Briceño, J. D., O. A. Aguilera, A. Benites-Palomino, A. S. Hsiou, J. L. O. Birindelli, S. Adnet, E.-A. Cadena, and T. M. Scheyer. 2021. A historical vertebrate collection from the Middle Miocene of the Peruvian Amazon. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 140: 26 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-021-00239-7].

• Carrillo-Briceño, J. D., R. Sánchez, T. M. Scheyer, J. D. Carrillo, M. Delfino, G. L. Georgalis, L. Kerber, D. Ruiz-Ramoni, J. L. O. Birindelli, E. A. Cadena, A. F. Rincón, M. Chavez-Hoffmeister, A. A. Carlini, M. R. Carvalho, R. Trejos-Tamayo, F. Vallejo, C. Jaramillo, D. S. Jones, and M. R. Sánchez-Villagra. 2021. A Pliocene-Pleistocene continental biota from Venezuela. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 140: 9 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-020-00216-6].

• Georgalis, G. L. 2021. First pan-trionachid turtle (Testudines, Pan-Trionychidae) from the Palaeogene of Africa. Papers in Palaeontology:[doi: 10.1002/spp2.1372].
• Georgalis, G. L., and M. Delfino. 2021. The Scontrone turtles – A new insular testudinoid fauna from the late Miocene of the Central Mediterranean. Geobios [doi: 10.1016/j.geobios.2021.05.001] (in press).
• Georgalis, G. L., A. Čerňanský and J. Klembara. 2021. Osteological atlas of new lizards from the Phosphorites du Quercy (France), based on historical, forgotten, fossil material. Geodiversitas 43(9):219-293.

• Georgalis, G. L., A. Čerňanský and S. Mayda. 2021. Late Paleogene herpetofaunas from the crossroads between two continents - new amphibian and reptile remains from the Oligocene of southern Balkans and Anatolia. Comptes Rendus Palevol 20(15):253-275.

• Georgalis, G. L., L. Macaluso and M. Delfino. 2021. A review of the fossil record of Afro-Arabian turtles of the clade Testudinoidea. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 62:43-78.

• Georgalis, G. L., M. Rabi, and K. T. Smith. 2021. Taxonomic revision of the snakes of the genera Palaeopython and Paleryx (Serpentes, Constrictores) from the Paleogene of Europe. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 140: 18 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-021-00224-0].

• Herbst, E. C., S. Lautenschlager, D. Bastiaans, F. Miedema, and T. M. Scheyer. 2021. Modeling tooth enamel in FEA comparisons of whole skulls: Comparing common simplifications with biologically realistic models. iScience 24: 103182 [doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.103182].

• Herbst, E. C., A. A. Felder, L. A. E. Evans, S. Ajami, B. Javaheri, and A. A. Pitsillides. 2021. A new straightforward method for semi-automated segmentation of trabecular bone from cortical bone in diverse and challenging morphologies. Royal Society Open Science 8(8):210408 [doi: 10.1098/rsos.210408].

• Joyce, W. G., J. Anquetin, E.-A. Cadena, J. Claude, I. G. Danilov, S. W. Evers, G.S. Ferreira, A. D. Gentry, G. L. Georgalis, T. R. Lyson, A. Pérez-García, M. Rabi, J. Sterli, N. S. Vitek and J. F. Parham. 2021. A nomenclature for fossil and living turtles using phylogenetically defined clade names. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 140: 5 (45 pp.) [10.1186/s13358-020-00211-x].

• Klug, C., D. Hansen, B. Scheffold, and T. Scheyer. 2021. Die Triasforschung und das Paläontologische Museum der Universität Zürich. Fossilien 6: 18-25. [popular article]

• Maidment, S. C. R., S. J. Strachan, D. Ouarhache, T. M. Scheyer, E. E. Brown, V. Fernandez, Z. Johanson, T. J. Raven, and P. M. Barrett. 2021. Bizarre dermal armour suggests the first African ankylosaur. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5: 1576-1581 [doi: 10.1038/s41559-021-01553-6].

• Pommery, Y., T. M. Scheyer, J. M. Neenan, T. Reich, V. Fernandez, D. F. A. E. Voeten, A. S. Losko, and I. Werneburg. 2021. Dentition and Feeding in Placodontia: tooth replacement in Henodus chelyops. BMC Ecology and Evolution 21: 136 [doi: 10.1186/s12862-021-01835-4].

• Rössner, G. E., L. Costeur, and T. M. Scheyer. 2021. Antiquity and fundamental processes of the antler cycle in Cervidae (Mammalia). The Science of Nature 108: 3 [doi: 10.1007/s00114-020-01713-x].

• Scheyer, T. M., et al. 2021. Chapters 2.8.4 Fossils (Scheyer, Hotz, Vilhelmsen, Litman) and 2.9.1 Microslides (Scheyer, Stauffer, Freitag). In: H. Frick, and M. Greef (eds.), Handbook on natural history collections management - A collaborative Swiss perspective. Swiss Academies Communications 16 (2) [10.5281/zenodo.4316839].

• Scheyer, T. M., and I. A. Cerda. 2021. Chapter 19: Testudines; pp. 385-398 in V. d. Buffrénil, A. d. Ricqlès, L. Zylberberg, K. Padian, M. Laurin, and A. Quilhac (eds.), Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
• Scheyer, T. M., A. Houssaye, and N. Klein. 2021. Chapter 22: Sauropterygia: Nothosauria and Pachypleurosauria; pp. 435-443 in V. d. Buffrénil, A. d. Ricqlès, L. Zylberberg, K. Padian, M. Laurin, and A. Quilhac (eds.), Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
• Scheyer, T. M., and N. Klein. 2021. Chapter 21: Sauropterygia: Placodontia; pp. 425-434 in V. d. Buffrénil, A. d. Ricqlès, L. Zylberberg, K. Padian, M. Laurin, and A. Quilhac (eds.), Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology. CRC Press, Boca Raton.

• Spiekman, S. N. F., N. C. Fraser, and T. M. Scheyer. 2021. A new phylogenetic hypothesis of Tanystropheidae (Diapsida, Archosauromorpha) and other "protorosaurs", and its implications for the early evolution of stem archosaurs. PeerJ 9:e11143 [doi: 10.7717/peerj.11143].

• Bastiaans, D., J. J. F. Kroll, D. Cornelissen, J. W. M. Jagt, and A. S. Schulp. 2020. Cranial palaeopathologies in a Late Cretaceous mosasaur from the Netherlands. Cretaceous Research 112: 104425 [doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104425].

• Cadena, E.-A., T. M. Scheyer, J. D. Carrillo-Briceño, R. Sánchez, O. A. Aguilera-Socorro, A. Vanegas, M. Pardo, D. M. Hansen, and M. R. Sánchez-Villagra. 2020. The anatomy, paleobiology and evolutionary relationships of the largest extinct side-necked turtle. Science Advances 6(7): eaay4593 [doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aay4593].
• Clarac, F., T. M. Scheyer, J. B. Desojo, I. A. Cerda, and S. Sanchez. 2020. The evolution of dermal shield vascularisation in Testudinata and Pseudosuchia: Phylogenetic constraints versus ecophysiological adaptations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375:20190132 [doi: 20190110.20191098/rstb.20192019.20190132].
• De Miguel Chaves, C., T. M. Scheyer, F. Ortega, and A. Pérez-García. 2020. The placodonts (Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Canales de Molina (Central Spain), and an update on the knowledge about this clade in the Iberian record. Historical Biology 32(1): 34-48 [doi: 10.1080/08912963.2018.1462805].

• Georgalis, G. L., S. Mayda, B. Alpagut, A. Şarbak, and G. Güler. 2020. The westernmost Asian record of pythonids (Serpentes): the presence of Python in a Miocene hominoid locality of Anatolia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1781144 (6 pages) [doi: 10.1080/02724634.2020.1781144].

• Georgalis, G. L., D. Zoboli, A. Pérez-García, G. L. Pillola, and M. Delfino. 2020. The occurrence of Eocenochelus (Testudines, Pleurodira) from Sardinia supports palaeogeographic reconstruction of the proximity of the island to continental Western Europe during the Eocene. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 126:833-846 [doi: 10.13130/2039-4942/14443].

• Gere, K., T. M. Scheyer, L. Makádi, and A. Ösi. 2020. Placodont remains (Sauropsida, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic of Hungary (Transdanubian Range and Villány Mountains). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments [doi: 10.1007/s12549-020-00432-5].

• Miedema, F., S. N. F. Spiekman, V. Fernandez, J. W. F. Reumer, and T. M. Scheyer. 2020. Cranial morphology of the tanystropheid Macrocnemus bassanii unveiled using synchrotron microtomography. Scientific Reports 10: 12412 [doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-68912-4].

• Ortega-Jimenez, V. M., E. C. Herbst, M. S. Leung, and R. Dudley. 2020. Natural barriers: waterfall transit by small flying animals. Royal Society Open Science 7: 201185 [doi: 10.1098/rsos.201185].
• Scheyer, T. M. 2020. Good News from the Badlands. New fossil discoversies illuminate Stupendemys geographicus, one of the largest turtles that ever lived. The Tortoise 3:136-141. [poular article]
• Scheyer, T. M., W. Wang, C. Li, F. Miedema, and S. N. F. Spiekman. 2020. Osteological re-description of Macrocnemus fuyuanensis (Archosauromorpha, Tanystropheidae) from the Middle Triassic of China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 58:169-187 [doi: 10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.200525].
• Scheyer, T. M., S. N. F. Spiekman, H.-D. Sues, M. D. Ezcurra, R. J. Butler, and M. E. H. Jones. 2020. Colobops: a juvenile rhynchocephalian reptile (Lepidosauromorpha), not a diminutive archosauromorph with an unusually strong bite. Royal Society Open Science 7: 192179 [doi: 10.1098/rsos.192179].

• Spiekman, S. N. F., J. M. Neenan, N. C. Fraser, V. Fernandez, O. Rieppel, S. Nosotti, and T. M. Scheyer. 2020. Aquatic habits and niche partitioning in the extraordinarily long-necked Triassic reptile Tanystropheus. Current Biology 30:1-7 [doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.025].

• Spiekman, S. N. F., J. M. Neenan, N. C. Fraser, O. Rieppel, V. Fernandez, and T. M. Scheyer. 2020. The cranial morphology of Tanystropheus hydroides (Tanystropheidae, Archosauromorpha) as revealed by synchrotron microtomography. PeerJ 8:e10299 [doi: 10.7717/peerj.10299].

• Butler, R. J., A. S. Jones, E. Buffetaut, G. W. Mandl, T. M. Scheyer, and O. Schultz. 2019. Description and phylogenetic placement of a new marine species of phytosaur (Archosauriformes: Phytosauria) from the Late Triassic of Austria. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 187(1):198-228 [doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz014].
• Georgalis, G. L., and T. M. Scheyer. 2019. A new species of Palaeopython (Serpentes) and other extinct squamates from the Eocene of Dielsdorf (Zurich, Switzerland). Swiss Journal of Geosciences [doi: 10.1007/s00015-019-00341-6]. (in press)

• Georgalis, G. L., and T. M. Scheyer. 2019. 3D data related to the publication: A new species of Palaeopython (Serpentes) and other extinct squamates from the Eocene of Dielsdorf (Zurich, Switzerland). MorphoMuseuM 5:e93 [doi: 10.1007/s00015-019-00341-6].

• Neenan, J. M., M. A. During, and T. M. Scheyer. 2019. The importance of Winterswijk for understanding placodontiform evolution. Grondboor & Hamer Volume 73 nr 5/6 - 2019 - Edition Staringia 16:222-225.

• Salas-Gismondi, R., J. W. Moreno-Bernal, T. M. Scheyer, M. R. Sánchez-Villagra, and C. Jaramillo. 2018. New Miocene Caribbean gavialoids and patterns of longirostry in crocodylians. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17:1049-1075 [doi: 10.1080/14772019.2018.1495275].

• Scheyer, T. M., A. G. Neuman, and D. B. Brinkman. 2019. A large marine eosauropterygian reptile with affinities to nothosauroid diapsids from the Early Triassic of British Columbia, Canada. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica [doi: 10.4202/app.00599.2019] (in press).
• Scheyer, T. M., N. Klein, O. Sichelschmidt, J. M. Neenan, and P. Albers. 2019. With plates and spikes - the heavily armoured Eusaurosphargis aff. dalsassoi. Grondboor & Hamer Volume 73 nr 5/6 - 2019 - Edition Staringia 16:217-221.
• Scheyer, T. M., J. R. Hutchinson, O. Strauss, M. Delfino, J. D. Carrillo-Briceño, R. Sánchez, and M. R. Sánchez-Villagra. 2019. Giant extinct caiman breaks constraint on the axial skeleton of extant crocodylians. eLife 2019;8:e49972 [doi: 10.7554/eLife.49972].

• Schoch, R. R., N. Klein, T. M. Scheyer, and H.-D. Sues. 2019. Microanatomy of the stem-turtle Pappochelys rosinae indicates a predominantly fossorial mode of life and clarifies early steps in the evolution of the shell. Scientific Reports 9:10430 [doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-46762-z].

• Spiekman, S. N. F. 2019. Tanystropheids from the Winterswijk quarry - rare but recurring elements. Grondboor & Hamer Volume 73 nr 5/6 - 2019 - Edition Staringia 16:208-215.

• Spiekman, S. N. F., and T. M. Scheyer. 2019. A taxonomic revision of the genus Tanystropheus (Archosauromorpha, Tanystropheidae). Palaeontologia Electronica 22.3.80:1-46 [doi: 10.26879/1038].

• Wang, W., C. Li, T. M. Scheyer, and L. Zhao. 2019. A new species of Cyamodus (Placodontia, Sauropterygia) from the early Late Triassic of south-west China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17(17): 1457-1476 [doi: 10.1080/14772019.2018.1535455].

• Werneburg, I., B. Esteve-Altava, J. Bruno, M. T. Ladeira, and R. Diogo. 2019. Unique skull network complexity of Tyrannosaurus rex among land vertebrates. Scientific Reports 9:1520 [doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-37976-8].

• Zurita-Altamirano, D., E. Buffetaut, A. M. Forasiepi, A. Kramarz, J. D. Carrillo, G. Aguirre-Fernández, A. A. Carlini, T. M. Scheyer, and M. R. Sánchez-Villagra. 2019. The Allemann collection from the Santa Cruz Formation (late early Miocene), Argentina, in Zurich, Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 138:259-275 [doi: 10.1007/s13358-019-00185-5].

• Cerda, I. A., J. B. Desojo, and T. M. Scheyer. 2018. Novel data on aetosaur (Archosauria, Pseudosuchia) osteoderm microanatomy and histology: palaeobiological implications. Palaeontology 61(5):721-745 [doi: 10.1111/pala.12363].
• Foth, C., M. V. Fernandez Blanco, P. Bona, and T. M. Scheyer. 2018. Cranial shape variation in jacarean caimanines (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea) and its implications in the taxonomic status of extinct species: the case of Melanosuchus fisheri. Journal of Morphology 279(2):259-273 [doi: 10.1002/jmor.20769].
• Latimer, A. E., and S. Giles. 2018. A giant dapediid from the Late Triassic of Switzerland and insights into neopterygian phylogeny. Royal Society Open Science 5:180497 [doi: 10.1098/rsos.180497].
• Salas-Gismondi, R., J. W. Moreno-Bernal, T. M. Scheyer, M. R. Sánchez-Villagra, and C. Jaramillo. in press. New Miocene Caribbean gavialoids and patterns of longirostry in crocodylians. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17:1049-1075 [doi: 10.1080/14772019.2018.1495275].
• Scheyer, T. M., M. Delfino, N. Klein, N. Bunbury, F. Fleischer-Dogley, and D. M. Hansen. 2018. Trophic interactions between larger crocodylians and giant tortoises on Aldabra Atoll, Western Indian Ocean, during the Late Pleistocene. Royal Society Open Science 5:171800 [doi: 10.1098/rsos.171800].

• Spiekman, S. N. F. 2018. A new specimen of Prolacerta broomi from the lower Fremouw Formation (Early Triassic) of Antarctica, its biogeographical implications and a taxonomic revision. Scientific Reports 8:17996 [doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-36499-6].

• Veitschegger, K., C. Kolb, E. Amson, T. M. Scheyer, and M. R. Sánchez-Villagra. 2018. Palaeohistology and life history evolution in cave bears, Ursus spelaeus sensu lato. PLoS ONE 13(11): e0206791 [doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206791].

• Voeten, D. F. A. E., T. Reich, R. Araújo, and T. M. Scheyer. 2018. Synchrotron microtomography of a Nothosaurus marchicus skull informs on nothosaurian physiology and neurosensory adaptations in early Sauropterygia. PloS ONE 13(1):e0188509 [doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188509].

• Wang, W., C. Li, and X.-C. Wu. 2018. An adult specimen of Sinocyamodus xinpuensis (Sauropterygia: Placodontia) from Guanling, Guizhou, China. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society [doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly080].

• Bona, P., M. V. Fernandez Blanco, T. M. Scheyer, and C. Foth. 2017. Shedding light on the taxonomic diversity of the South American Miocene caimans: the status of Melanosuchus fisheri Medina, 1976 (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea). Ameghiniana 54(6):681-687 [doi: 10.5710/AMGH.08.06.2017.3103].
• Crofts, S. B., J. M. Neenan, T. M. Scheyer, and A. P. Summers. 2017. Tooth occlusal morphology in the durophagous marine reptiles, Placodontia (Reptilia: Sauropterygia). Paleobiology 43(1):114-128 [doi: 10.1017/pab.2016.27].
• Jaquier, V. P., and T. M. Scheyer. 2017. Bone histology of the Middle Triassic long-necked reptiles Tanystropheus and Macrocnemus (Archosauromorpha, Protorosauria). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37:e1296456 (6 pages) [doi: 10.1080/02724634.2017.1296456].
• Jaquier, V. P., N. C. Fraser, H. Furrer, and T. M. Scheyer. 2017. Osteology of a new specimen of Macrocnemus aff. M. fuyuanensis (Archosauromorpha, Protorosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Europe: implications for species recognition and paleogeography of tanystropheid protorosaurs. Frontiers in Earth Science 5:91 [doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00091].  FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE  - EDITOR'S COICE 2017 SECTION PALAEONTOLOGY
• Klein, N., and T. M. Scheyer. 2017. Microanatomy and life history in Palaeopleurosaurus (Rhynchocephalia: Pleurosauridae) from the Early Jurassic of Germany. The Science of Nature 104:4 [doi: 10.1007/s00114-016-1427-3].
• Latimer, A. E., C. M. Loza, M. R. Sánchez-Villagra, and A. A. Carlini. 2017. Supplemental information for "Sensory anatomy of the most aquatic of carnivorans: the Antarctic Ross seal, and convergences with other mammals". MorphoMuseuM 3(4)-e7 [doi: 10.18563/m3.3.4.e7]

• Loza, C. M., A. E. Latimer, M. R. Sánchez-Villagra, and A. A. Carlini. 2017. Sensory anatomy of the most aquatic of carnivorans: the Antarctic Ross seal, and convergences with other mammals. Biology Letters 13: 20170489 [doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0489].

• Mautner, A.-K., A. E. Latimer, U. Fritz, and T. M. Scheyer. 2017. An updated description of the osteology of the pancake tortoise Malacochersus tornieri (Testudines: Testudinidae) with special focus on intraspecific variation. Journal of Morphology 278(3):321-333 [doi: 10.1002/jmor.20640].
• Mautner, A.-K., A. E. Latimer, U. Fritz, and T. M. Scheyer. 2017. 3D data and models related to the publication: An updated description of the osteology of the pancake tortoise Malacochersus tornieri (Testudines: Testudinidae) with special focus on intraspecific variation. MorphoMuseuM 2 (2)-e4. doi: 10.18563/m3.2.2.e4.
• Nakajima, Y., I. G. Danilov, R. Hirayama, T. Sonoda, and T. M. Scheyer. 2017. Morphological and histological evidence for the oldest known softshell turtles from Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1278606 (11 pages) [doi: 10.1080/02724634.2017.1278606].
• Romano, C., J. F. Jenks, R. Jattiot, T. M. Scheyer, K. G. Bylund, and H. Bucher. 2017. Marine Early Triassic Actinopterygii from Elko County (Nevada, USA): implications for the Smithian equatorial vertebrate eclipse. Journal of Paleontology 91(5):1025-1046 [doi: 10.1017/jpa.2017.36].
• Romano, C., J. F. Jenks, R. Jattiot, T. M. Scheyer, K. G. Bylund, and H. Bucher. 2017. 3D model related to the publication: Marine Early Triassic Actinopterygii from Elko County (Nevada, USA): implications for the Smithian equatorial vertebrate eclipse. MorphoMuseuM 3 (3)-e1 [doi: 10.18563/m3.3.3.e1].
• Scheyer, T. M., E. V. Syromyatnikova, and I. G. Danilov. 2017. Turtle shell bone and osteoderm histology of Mesozoic and Cenozoic stem-trionychian Adocidae and Nanhsiungchelyidae (Cryptodira: Adocusia) from Central Asia, Mongolia, and North America. Fossil Record 20:69-85 [doi:10.5194/fr-20-69-2017].
• Scheyer, T. M., J. M. Neenan, T. Bodogan, H. Furrer, C. Obrist, and M. Plamondon. 2017. A new, exceptionally preserved juvenile specimen of Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi (Diapsida) and implications for Mesozoic marine diapsid phylogeny. Scientific Reports. 7:4406 [doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-04514-x].
• Scheyer, T. M., J. M. Neenan, T. Bodogan, H. Furrer, C. Obrist, and M. Plamondon. 2017. 3D model(s) related to the publication: A new, exceptionally preserved juvenile specimen of Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi (Diapsida) and implications for Mesozoic marine diapsid phylogeny. MorphoMuseuM 3 (3)-e2 [doi: 10.18563/m3.3.3.e2].

• Spiekman, S. N. F., and Werneburg, I. 2017. Patterns in the bony skull development of marsupials: high variation in onset of ossification and conserved regions of bone contact. Scientific Reports 7, 43197.

• Werneburg, I., Spiekman, S. N. F. 2017. Mammalian embryology and organogenesis From Gametes to Weaning In: Frank Zachos, Robert Asher (eds.). Mammalia. Series: The Handbook of Zoology / Handbuch der Zoologie. De Gruyter

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