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Cases in which Parsimony or Compatibility Methods will be Positively Misleading

1978 • 2,881 citations

Osteology of the reptiles ..

1956 • 1,133 citations

AMNIOTE PHYLOGENY AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FOSSILS

1988 • 1,071 citations

A Framework for the Quantitative Study of Evolutionary Trees

1989 • 833 citations

The Discovery and Importance of Multiple Islands of Most-Parsimonious Trees

1991 • 803 citations

Success of Phylogenetic Methods in the Four-Taxon Case

1993 • 737 citations

ON SIMULTANEOUS ANALYSIS

1996 • 651 citations

MOLECULAR VERSUS MORPHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO SYSTEMATICS

1987 • 602 citations

Performance of Phylogenetic Methods in Simulation

1995 • 594 citations

PATTERNS OF VARIATION IN LEVELS OF HOMOPLASY

1989 • 555 citations

SEPARATE VERSUS COMBINED ANALYSIS OF PHYLOGENETIC EVIDENCE

1995 • 536 citations

Testing Species Phylogenies and Phylogenetic Methods with Congruence

1995 • 492 citations

The Importance of Fossils in Phylogeny Reconstruction

1989 • 445 citations

For Consensus (Sometimes)

1993 • 351 citations

Alignment-Ambiguous Nucleotide Sites and the Exclusion of Systematic Data

1993 • 344 citations

Weighting, Partitioning, and Combining Characters in Phylogenetic Analysis

1994 • 306 citations

Fossil vertebrates from the late Cretaceous Lance formation, eastern Wyoming

1964 • 298 citations

Independent origins of New Zealand moas and kiwis.

1992 • 247 citations

Phylogeny of the major tetrapod groups: Morphological data and divergence dates

1990 • 239 citations

Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History)

1890 • 233 citations

The comparison of morphological and molecular data in phylogenetic systematics

1994 • 227 citations

General Inconsistency Conditions for Maximum Parsimony: Effects of Branch Lengths and Increasing Numbers of Taxa

1996 • 227 citations

Homology of facial structures in extant archosaurs (birds and crocodilians), with special reference to paranasal pneumaticity and nasal conchae

1995 • 226 citations

Comparing the stratigraphic record to estimates of phylogeny

1994 • 224 citations

Molecular time scale for evolution

1987 • 215 citations

When are Fossils Better than Extant Taxa in Phylogenetic Analysis?

1991 • 213 citations

A Likelihood Ratio Test to Detect Conflicting Phylogenetic Signal

1996 • 203 citations

The osteology of the reptiles

1925 • 199 citations

Taxic origin and temporal diversity: the effect of phylogeny

1992 • 197 citations

Congruence Between Molecular and Morphological Phylogenies

1993 • 191 citations

Among-site rate variation and phylogenetic analysis of 12S rRNA in sigmodontine rodents.

1995 • 179 citations

Fossils, Topologies, Missing Data, and the Higher Level Phylogeny of Eutherian Mammals

1992 • 177 citations

Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain

1995 • 170 citations

Testing the quality of the fossil record: Paleontological knowledge is improving

1994 • 163 citations

Lothagam: a record of faunal change in the late Miocene of East Africa

1996 • 145 citations

Turtle, crocodilian, and champsosaur diversity changes in the Cenozoic of the north-central region of western United States

1982 • 140 citations

Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in North America

1995 • 139 citations

RATES OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

1986 • 137 citations

Variations in mitochondrial tRNA gene organization of reptiles as phylogenetic markers.

1995 • 136 citations

RATES OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION: Phylogenetic Issues and Applications

1996 • 136 citations

When Molecules and Morphology Clash: A Phylogenetic Analysis of the North American Ambystomatid Salamanders (Caudata: Ambystomatidae)

1991 • 133 citations

Combining Data Sets with Different Numbers of Taxa for Phylogenetic Analysis

1995 • 131 citations

Tree-based approaches to understanding history; comments on ranks, rules and the quality of the fossil record

1993 • 125 citations

The identification of living crocodilians

1974 • 120 citations

CONGRUENCE BETWEEN SUPERPOSITIONAL AND PHYLOGENETIC PATTERNS: COMPARING CLADISTIC PATTERNS WITH FOSSIL RECORDS

1992 • 120 citations

A reanalysis of Bernissartia fagesii, with comments on its Phylogenetic position and its bearing on the origin and diagnosis of the Eusuchia

1990 • 100 citations

A new crocodylian from the Early Eocene of south-eastern Queensland and a preliminary investigation of the phylogenetic relationships of crocodyloids

1996 • 96 citations

The Influence of Taxonomic Method on the Perception of Patterns of Evolution

1988 • 94 citations

The Higher Level Relationships of the Extant Crocodylia

1989 • 92 citations

Non-dinosaurian lower vertebrates across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Montana

1989 • 91 citations

The chromosomes of the order Crocodilia

1970 • 89 citations

A Phylogenetic Analysis of Geese and Swans (Anseriformes: Anserinae), Including Selected Fossil Species

1996 • 88 citations

Amino acid sequence versus morphological data and the interordinal relationships of mammals.

1987 • 79 citations

Molecular Systematics of the Order Crocodilia

1989 • 77 citations

The Systematics and Evolution of the Crocodilia as Suggested by Restriction Endonuclease Analysis of Mitochondrial and Nuclear Ribosomal DNA

1991 • 72 citations

Missing data and rhynchosaur phylogeny

1995 • 69 citations

Crocodilian evolution: Insights from immunological data

1992 • 66 citations

A Biochemical Approach Towards the Study of Reptilian Phylogeny: Evolution of Serum Albumin and Lactic Dehydrogenase

1971 • 64 citations

The Zoogeography of the Crocodilia

1968 • 62 citations

Molecular clocks and the incompleteness of the fossil record

1995 • 62 citations

The small crocodile bernissartia fagesii from the lower cretaceous of galve teruel spain

1990 • 59 citations

Testing phylogenetic approaches with empirical data, as illustrated with the parsimony method.

1992 • 58 citations

Mitochondrial Gene Order Adjacent to the Control Region in Crocodile, Turtle, and Tuatara

1996 • 57 citations

The Evolution of the Crocodilia: A Conflict Between Morphological and Biochemical Data

1989 • 57 citations

Stratigraphic Consistency and the Shape of Things

1996 • 57 citations

Generic affinities among crocodilians as revealed by DNA fingerprinting with a Bkm-derived probe.

1994 • 54 citations

Trilophosuchus rackhamigen. et sp. nov., a new crocodilian from the early Miocene limestones of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland

1993 • 54 citations

SYSTEMATIK DER REZENTEN KROKODILE

1953 • 53 citations

Congruence between parsimony and stratigraphy: comparisons of three indices

1997 • 50 citations

Paleoecology of an Estuarine, Incised-Valley Fill in the Dinosaur Park Formation (Judith River Group, Upper Cretaceous) of Southern Alberta, Canada

1997 • 46 citations

Molecular and Morphological Data Provide Phylogenetic Resolution at Different Hierarchical Levels in Andira

1996 • 45 citations

Paleontological data and molecular phylogenetic analysis

1994 • 44 citations

Sequence Similarity of 12S Ribosomal Segment of Mitochondrial DNAs of Gharial and False Gharial

1992 • 43 citations

Ecological or Phylogenetic Interpretations of Crocodilian Nesting Habits

1972 • 42 citations

A new fossil alligator from the Hell Creek beds of Montana

1911 • 41 citations

Crocodilians and Their Helminth Parasites: Macroevolutionary Considerations

1989 • 40 citations

The Evolution and Classification of the Crocodilia

1934 • 37 citations

Chromosomal repatterning in crocodiles: C, G and N-banding and the in situ hybridization of 18S and 26S rRNA cistrons

1986 • 33 citations

Low levels of protein divergence detected between Gavialis and Tomistoma: Evidence for crocodilian monophyly?

1984 • 30 citations

Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the London Clay, and of the Bracklesham and Other Tertiary Beds.

1849 • 30 citations

Species identification of commercial crocodilian skins

1971 • 27 citations

Wapiti Valley Faunas: Early and Middle Eocene Fossil Vertebrates from the North Fork of the Shoshone River, Park County, Wyoming

1992 • 23 citations

The Cuban Crocodile, Crocodylus rhombifer, from Late Quaternary Fossil Deposits on Grand Cayman

1993 • 23 citations

Crocodilians from the late Tertiary of northwestern Venezuela: Melanosuchus Fisheri sp. nov

1976 • 22 citations

Two new river reptiles from the titanothere beds

1904 • 20 citations

The place of Gavialis and Tomistoma in eusuchian evolution: a reconciliation of palaeontological and biochemical data

1986 • 19 citations

Tomistoma lusitanica crocodilien du Miocene du Portugal

1961 • 18 citations

A New Alligator from the Miocene of Florida

1942 • 17 citations

The crocodile of Maransart : (Dollosuchus dixoni [Owen])

1937 • 16 citations

A new crocodilian from the Eocene of Utah

1946 • 14 citations

Pristichampsuscf.P. vorax(Eusuchia; Pristichampsinae) from the Uintan of West Texas

1986 • 13 citations

Thoracosaurus macrorhynchus Bl. aus der Tuffkreide von Maastricht.

1888 • 12 citations

Thoracosaurus, a Cretaceous crocodile

1925 • 11 citations

Le Crocodilien longirostre Gavialosuchus dans le Miocène moyen de Polastron (Gers, France)

1984 • 6 citations

A new species of Brachyuranochampsa (Crocodilia) from the Bridger beds of Wyoming. American Museum novitates ; no. 2079

1962 • 6 citations

Beitr�ge zur osteologie der rezenten krokodilier.

1924 • 6 citations

Navajosuchus Is Allognathosuchus

1988 • 4 citations

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1955 • 0 citations