Expanded dorsal ribs in the Late Triassic pseudosuchian reptile Euscolosuchus olseni

Abstract

Citation for this article: Scheyer, T. M., and H.-D. Sues. 2016. Expanded dorsal ribs in the Late Triassic pseudosuchian reptile Euscolosuchus olseni. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2017.1248768.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

H.-D. S. thanks P. A. Kroehler, P. E. Olsen, K. A. Pitt, and E. B. Sues for their capable and enthusiastic assistance in the field. We thank S. Jabo (USNM) for taking the photographs used in Figures 1 and 2, V. Jaquier (Zürich) for preparing the thin-sections used in this study, and T. Lyson (Denver) for fruitful discussions. We thank reviewers M. Buchwitz and I. A. Cerda and editor J. Fröbisch for their constructive comments. T.M.S. acknowledges funding by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant no. 31003A_162775). H.-D.S. acknowledges funding for field work through grants from the National Geographic Society (grants 3592-88 and 4232-89 to H.-D.S. and P. E. Olsen), National Science Foundation (NSF EAR-9016677 to H.-D.S. and P. E. Olsen and NSF EAR-9814475 to P. E. Olsen and H.-D.S.).