• Sterling Nesbitt (born March 25, 1982, in Mesa, Arizona) is an American paleontologist best known for his work on the origin and early evolutionary patterns...
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    honouring Alfred Crompton. In 2013 a new description was published by Sterling Nesbitt, Paul Barrett, Sarah Werning and Christian Sidor, including the late...
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    but it was not widely embraced until 2011. In 2011 paleontologist Sterling Nesbitt proposed that Crurotarsi, as it was then defined, must include not...
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    northern Arizona. A fairly complete skeleton was found in 2002 by Sterling Nesbitt. The taxon has a large sailback formed by elongated neural spines of...
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    The most recent definition of Paracrocodylomorpha, as defined by Sterling Nesbitt in 2011, is "the least inclusive clade containing Poposaurus and Crocodylus...
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    Venetoraptor (category Taxa named by Sterling Nesbitt)
    F. L.; Stocker, M. R.; Novas, F. E.; Soares, M. B.; Kellner, A. W. A.; Nesbitt, S. J. (2023). "New reptile shows dinosaurs and pterosaurs evolved among...
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    relationships, Nesbitt recommended that the term "Rauisuchia" be abandoned. In a study of the ctenosauriscid Arizonasaurus, paleontologist Sterling Nesbitt defined...
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    pterosaurs or other archosaurs. In 2011, Dinosauromorpha was redefined by Sterling Nesbitt to be a branch-based clade, defined by including reptiles closer to...
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    Allokotosauria (category Taxa named by Sterling Nesbitt)
    grouping of specialized herbivorous archosauromorphs was recovered by Sterling J. Nesbitt, John J. Flynn, Adam C. Pritchard, J. Michael Parrish, Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana...
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    Daemonosaurus (category Taxa named by Sterling Nesbitt)
    Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. Daemonosaurus was named by Hans-Dieter Sues, Sterling J. Nesbitt, David S. Berman and Amy C. Henrici in the journal Proceedings of...
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  • Samsarasuchus (category Taxa named by Sterling Nesbitt)
    Dhurjati P.; Sen, Kasturi; Sennikov, Andrey G.; Sookias, Roland B.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Butler, Richard J. (25 October 2023). "A new archosauriform species...
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    Lutungutali (category Taxa named by Sterling Nesbitt)
    that was earlier than previously thought. Peecook, B. R.; Sidor, C. A.; Nesbitt, S. J.; Smith, R. M. H.; Steyer, J. S.; Angielczyk, K. D. (2013). "A new...
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    Diodorus scytobrachion (category Taxa named by Sterling Nesbitt)
    temnospondyls. In 2012, the paleontologists Christian F. Kammerer, Sterling J. Nesbitt, and Neil H. Shubin scientifically described the remains, and identified...
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  • Lepidus praecisio (category Taxa named by Sterling Nesbitt)
    material. The results are shown below: Timeline of coelophysoid research Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Ezcurra, Martin D. (13 July 2015). "The early fossil record of...
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    Aetosauriformes (category Taxa named by Sterling Nesbitt)
    a phylogenetic analysis using a modified version of the data matrix of Nesbitt et al. (2011). Aetosauriformes was recovered as the sister group of the...
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    2004, and the specimen was uncovered by graduate student Sterling Nesbitt at the AMNH. Nesbitt was opening jackets of blocks in order to find new specimens...
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    Asilisaurus (category Taxa named by Sterling Nesbitt)
    ScienceDaily. March 3, 2010. Retrieved March 3, 2010. Barrett, Paul M.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Peecook, Brandon R. (2015-04-01). "A large-bodied silesaurid from...
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    characteristic [shape] because you're flying, you're in a lot more 3D space. — Sterling Nesbitt Kellner et al. (2022) described Maehary, a small ornithodiran from...
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    cladistic analysis, Sterling J. Nesbitt (2011) found Xilousuchus to be a poposauroid most closely related to Arizonasaurus. Nesbitt's analysis did not recover...
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    Prestosuchus deep within Suchia, so Sereno's synapomorphy is likely invalid. Sterling Nesbitt's major 2011 analysis of early archosaurs found several more stable...
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  • Syntomiprosopus (category Taxa named by Sterling Nesbitt)
    dicynodont (likely Placerias) and an unidentified allokotosaur. Heckert, A. B.; Nesbitt, S. J.; Stocker, M. R.; Schneider, V. P.; Hoffman, D. K.; Zimmer, B. W...
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  • Protopyknosia (category Taxa named by Sterling Nesbitt)
    Late Triassic of India and the United States. First identified by Sterling Nesbitt et al. in 2021, the clade contains two genera: Kranosaura and Triopticus...
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    such a group. A detailed assessment of archosaur interrelations by Sterling Nesbitt confirmed or found the following twelve unambiguous synapomorphies...
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  • Victoria Cross recipient Robert Nesbitt (disambiguation) Stacey Nesbitt (born 1997), Canadian motorcycle road racer Sterling Nesbitt (born 1982), American paleontologist...
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    doctoral dissertation, but was only formally published in 2017 by Sterling Nesbitt and colleagues. The genus contains the type and only species T. rhadinus...
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  • Eocypselus rowei (category Taxa named by Sterling Nesbitt)
    was first described in 2013 by Daniel T. Ksepka, Julia A. Clarke, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Felicia B. Kulp, and Lance Grande in the Proceedings of the Royal...
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    and Lagosuchus. An 2011 archosaur-focused phylogenetic analysis by Sterling Nesbitt benefited from far more data and found strong support for pterosaurs...
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  • that it was more closely related to Dilophosaurus and Dracovenator. Sterling Nesbitt et al. (2009), using the characters of Tawa found Cryolophosaurus to...
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    Denton, a professional geologist from Virginia, and a native Mesa teen Sterling Nesbitt, who was a museum volunteer that came to a dig with paleontologist...
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  • phytosaurs: A phylogenetic analysis of early archosaurs by paleontologist Sterling Nesbitt (2011) found strong support for a sister taxon relationship between...
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