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PART 1: FOSSIL ENDOCASTS IN REPTILES AND BIRDS Chapter 1 – Onto land and back into water: basal diapsids and marine reptiles Chapter 2 – Sauropterygia and Ichthyopterygia: Paleoneurology of secondarily aquatic reptiles Chapter 3 – Contrasting brains and bones: implications for turtle paleoneurology Chapter 4 – Approaches to the Paleoneurology of Lepidosauromorpha Chapter 5 – Paleoneuroanatomy of Triassic archosauriforms and pseudosuchians Chapter 6 – Paleoneurology of Crocodylomorpha Chapter 7 – Neurosensory evolution in the pterosaurs Chapter 8 – Paleoneurology of dinosaur endocasts: past, present, and future research Chapter 9 – The evolution of bird brain PART 2: FOSSIL ENDOCASTS IN MAMMALS Chapter 10 – Paleoneurology of stem and basal Mammalia Chapter 11 – Evolution of the brain and sensory structures in monotremes/Evolution of the brain and sensory structures in marsupials Chapter 12 – Early evolution of the brain in Primates and their close kin Chapter 13 – The brain of condylarthra and extinct Cetartiodactyla Chapter 14 – Sirenia fossil endocranial casts: history and evolution Chapter 15 – Paleoneurology of the Proboscidea (Mammalia, Afrotheria): insight from the brain endocast, bony labyrinth and infraorbital canal Chapter 16 – North American and South American Fossil Rodents: Cranial endocasts of extinct rodents and brain evolution Chapter 17 – Parallel patterns in carnivore brain evolution/South American Fossil Carnivorans: Auditory Region of Ursidae and Cranial Endocast of Procyonidae Chapter 18 – The Cranial Endocast and Inner Ear Anatomy of Extinct Cingulates Chapter 19 – The endocranial cavities of Folivora (Mammalia, Xenarthra): insights from the brain cavity, bony labyrinth and cranial sinuses Chapter 20 – Cranial Endocasts and Inner Ear of Notostylopidae and Typotheria/Endocranial Morphology of Toxodontians (Mammalia, Notoungulata) and Brain Evolution in Paleogene Notoungulates Chapter 21 – Digital and Natural Cranial Endocasts of Macraucheniidae (Mammalia, Litopterna): Brain and Frontal Sinuses




