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Rieppel, O. (2006). On concept formation in systematics. Cladistics 22:474-492.
Kearney, M., and Rieppel, O. (2006). Rejecting “the given” in systematics. Cladistics 22: 369-377.
Rieppel, O., and Kearney, M. (2006). The poverty of taxonomic characters. Biol. Philos. December.
(http://www.springerlink.com/content/h1045281150h849p/?p)
Rieppel, O.,and Liu, J. 2006. On Xinpusaurus (Reptilia: Thalattosauria). J. Vert. Paleont. 26: 200-204.
Fröbisch, M. B., Sander, P. M., and Rieppel, O. (2006). A new species of Cymbospondylus (Diapsida,
Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Nevada and a re-evaluation of the skull osteology of the genus.
Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 147: 515-538.
Kearney, M., and Rieppel, O. (2006). An investigation into the occurrence of plicidentine in the teeth of
squamate reptiles. Copeia 2006(3): 337-350.
Tsuihiji, T., Kearney, M., and Rieppel, O. (2006). First report of a pectoral muscle in snakes, with
comments on the snake cervico-dorsal boundary. Copeia 2006(2): 206-215.
Fraser, N. C., and Rieppel, O. (2006). A new protorosaur (Diapsida) from the upper Buntsandstein of the
Black Forest, Germany. J. Vert. Paleont. 26(4): 26-91.
Rieppel, O., Liu J., and Li C. (2006). A new species of the thalattosaur genus Anshunsaurus (Reptilia:
Thalattosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou Province, southwestern China. Vert. PalAsiatica 44:
285-296.
Rieppel, O. (2006). Parsimony, likelihood, and instrumentalism in systematics. Biol.Philos. October.
(http://www.springerlink.com/content/h1045281150h849p/)
Marcello Ruta
Ruta, M., Wagner, P. J. and Coates, M. I. (2006). Evolutionary patterns in early tetrapods. I: Rapid initial
diversification followed by decrease in rates of character change. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond., Ser. B.
Biological Sciences 273: 2107-2111.
Wagner, P. J., Ruta, M., and Coates, M. I. (2006). Evolutionary patterns in early tetrapods. II: Differing
constraints on available character space among clades. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond., Ser. B. Biological
Sciences 273: 2113-2118.
Neil H. Shubin
Shubin, N., Daeschler, E., and Jenkins, Jr, F. (2006). The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin
of the tetrapod limb. Nature 440: 764-771.
Daeschler, E., Shubin, N., and Jenkins, Jr, F. (2006). A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of
the tetrapod body plan. Nature 440: 757-763
Peter J. Wagner
Wagner, P. J., Kosnik, M. A., and Lidgard, S. (2006). Abundance distributions imply elevated complexity
of post-Paleozoic marine ecosystems. Science 314: 1289-1292.
Wagner, P. J., Ruta, M., and Coates, M. I. (2006). Evolutionary patterns in early tetrapods. II: Differing
constraints on available character space among clades. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond., Ser. B. Biological
Sciences 273: 2113-2118.
Ruta, M., Wagner, P. J. and Coates, M. I. (2006). Evolutionary patterns in early tetrapods. I: Rapid initial
diversification followed by decrease in rates of character change. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond., Ser. B.
Biological Sciences 273: 2107-2111.
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