Covert biases, circularity, and apomorphies: A critical look at the North American Quaternary Herpetofaunal Stability Hypothesis

By C. J. Bell, J. Gauthier, G. Bever. 2010

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Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations (2011, background): “…problem for clades that are understudied, represented by a sparse fossil record, and/or routinely overidentified (i.e., placed in a lower level taxon than the data can demonstrate) in the literature (e.g., Cenozoic amphibians and reptiles, Bever 2005; Bell et al. 2010; Sanders et al. 2010).”
Aetosauria: a clade of armoured pseudosuchians from the Upper Triassic continental beds (2013, background): “…apomorphy-based identifications in order to avoid chimeric holotypes (a problem in previous taxonomic studies of aetosaurs mixed with phytosaurs: Parker in press), and the potential circularity of conflating stratigraphical and geographical data with morphological data (e.g. Bell et al. 2010).”
A Review of the Fossil Record of Old World Turtles of the Clade Pan-Trionychidae (2017, background): “…(Praschag et al. 2011), and legitimate criticism regarding the identification of fragmentary fossils based on the currently existing herpetofauna (Bell et al. 2010), we here defy the synonymization of the Punjabi taxa with the extant Lissemys punctata, although assignment to the Lissemys…”