Publications
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
2003 Vol.23 No.2

PAPERS

Problems due to missing data in phylogenetic analyses including fossils: a critical review
MAUREEN KEARNEY and JAMES M. CLARK, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):263–274
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Missing entry replacement data analysis: a replacement approach to dealing with missing data in paleontological and total evidence data sets
MARK A. NORELL and WARD C. WHEELER, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):275–283
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Evaluation of the principal-component and expectation-maximization methods for estimating missing data in morphometric studies
RICHARD E. STRAUSS, MOMCHIL N. ATANASSOV and JOÃO ALVES DE OLIVEIRA, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):284–296
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Incomplete taxa, incomplete characters, and phylogenetic accuracy: is there a missing data problem?
JOHN J. WIENS, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):297–310
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Missing entries and multiple trees: instability, relationships, and support in parsimony analysis
MARK WILKINSON, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):311–323
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Decompression syndrome in plesiosaurs (Sauropterygia: Reptilia)
BRUCE M. ROTHSCHILD and GLENN W. STORRS, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):324–328
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A new crocodylomorph archosaur from the Upper Triassic of North Carolina
HANS-DIETER SUES, PAUL E. OLSEN, JOSEPH G. CARTER, and DIANE M. SCOTT, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):329–343
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The evolution of vertebral pneumaticity in sauropod dinosaurs
MATHEW J. WEDEL, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):344–357.
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Ferganasaurus verzilini gen. et sp. nov., a new neosauropod (Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropoda) from the Middle Jurassic of Fergana Valley, Kirghizia
VLADIMIR R. ALIFANOV and ALEXANDER O. AVERIANOV, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):358–372
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Osteohistology of Confuciusornis sanctus (Theropoda: Aves)
ARMAND J. de RICQLÈS, KEVIN PADIAN, JOHN R. HORNER, E.-T. LAMM, and NATHAN MYHRVOLD, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):373–386
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A new crane (Aves: Gruidae) from the Miocene of Germany
URSULA B. GÖHLICH, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):387–393
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The phylogenetic position of Sineoamphisbaena hexatabularis reexamined
MAUREEN KEARNEY, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):394–403
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The Late Cretaceous placental mammal Kulbeckia
J. DAVID ARCHIBALD and ALEXANDER O. AVERIANOV, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):404–419
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New diatomyid and baluchimyine rodents from the Oligocene of Pakistan (Bugti Hills, Balochistan): systematic and paleobiogeographic implications
LAURENT MARIVAUX and JEAN-LOUP WELCOMME, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):420–434
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New Miocene rodents from Patagonia (Argentina) and their bearing on the early radiation of the octodontoids (Hystricognathi)
MARÍA GUIOMAR VUCETICH and ALEJANDRO G. KRAMARZ, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):435–444
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A new species of Eopachyrucos (Mammalia, Notoungulata, Interatheriidae) from the Late Oligocene of Uruguay
MARCELO A. REGUERO, MARTÍN UBILLA, and DANIEL PEREA, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):445–457
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NOTES

Bone profiler: a tool to quantify, model, and statistically compare bone-section compactness profiles
MARC GIRONDOT and MICHEL LAURIN, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):458–461
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Oldest Bufonidae (Amphibia, Anura) from the Old World: a bufonid from the Paleocene of France
JEAN-CLAUDE RAGE, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):462–463
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A phytosaur from the Upper Triassic of Brazil
EDIO-ERNST KISSCHLAT and SPENCER G. LUCAS, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):464–467
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A new species of Paleocene multituberculate (Mammalia: Allotheria) from the Hanna Basin, south-central Wyoming
PENNILYN HIGGINS, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):468–470
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Radioisotopically-calibrated oreodonts (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Late Oligocene of southwestern New Mexico
GARY S. MORGAN and SPENCER G. LUCAS, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):471–473
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BOOK REVIEWS

Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life in Water: Proceedings of the International Meeting Poitiers, 1996
BRIAN LEE BEATTY, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):474–475
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The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand
JIM I. MEAD, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):475
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CORRECTION

Haasiasaurus gen. nov., a new generic name for the basal mosasauroid Haasia Polcyn et al., 1999
MICHAEL J. POLCYN, EITAN TCHERNOV, and LOUIS L. JACOBS, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):476
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

A new notosuchian from the Early Cretaceous of Niger
P. C. SERENO, C. A. SIDOR, H. C. E. LARSSON, and B. GADO, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):477–482.
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Fossil juvenile Cyathaspididae (Heterostraci) reveal rapid cyclomorial development of the dermal skeleton
JEFFREY W. GREENIAUS and MARK V. H. WILSON, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003, 23(2):483–487.
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