My research has benefited from the support from several institutions and funding agencies. Thank you so much!

I am also indebted to the numerous curators who have received me to collect data in their collections!
AM: Rose Prevec; AMNH (Paleontology): Mark Norell, Carl Mehling; AMNH (Herpetology): Lauren Vonnahme, Margareth Arnold, David Kizirian, Christopher Raxworthy; AUP: Gordon Walkden, Colin Taylor; BPI: Bruce Rubidge, Sifelani Jirah, Bernhard Zipfel; BSPG: Oliver Rauhut; BU: Michael Benton; CJB: Chris Bell; CM (Paleontology): Amy Henrici; CM (Herpetology): Steve Rogers; FMNH (Paleontology): Olivier Rieppel, William Simpson; FMNH (Herpetology): Alan Resetar; GMPKU: Dayong Jiang, Zuoyu Sun; IGM: Maria del Carmen Perrilliat, Marisol Montellano; IVPP: Yuan Wang, Chun Li; KUVP: Desui Miao; LH: Angela Buscalioni, Francisco Ortega; MACN: Stella Alvarez; MB: Johannes Müller, Daniela Schwarz-Wings; MBSN: Anna Paganoni; MCZ (Paleontology): Jessica Cundiff, Stephanie Pierce; MCZ (Herpetology): Jonathan Losos, José Rosado; MFSN: Giuseppe Muscio; MGB: Vincent Vicedo, Jaume Gallemí; MGM: David Morris; MLP: Marcelo Reguero; MN: Alexander W. A. Kellner, Deise Henriques, Luciana Carvalho Sérgio Alex K. Azevedo; MNHN: Nour-Eddine Jalil; MPCA: Ignacio Cerda,; MPSC: Álamo Feitosa Saraiva, João Kerensky; MSNM: Cristiano dal Sasso; NHMUK: Sandra Chapman, Lorna Steel; NMNH: Amanda Millhouse, Matthew Carrano; NMOK: Cornelia Kurz; NMQR: Elize Butler; NMS: Nicholas Fraser; NSM: Makoto Manabe; PIMUZ: Christian Klug, Thodoris Argyriou; PKU: Jiang Da-yong, Sunzuoyu Zuoyu; PZ: Evelyn Kustatscher; SAM: Zaituna Erasmus, Roger Smith; SMF: Rainer Brocke, Gunnar Riegel; SMNS: Erin Maxwell, Rainer Schoch; SSWG: Stefan Meng, Sebastian Stumpf; TM: Heidi Fourie; TMM: Brandon Strilisky; TMP: Brandon Strilisky ; UFRGS: Cesar Schultz, Marina Bento Soares; UFSM: Atila da Rosa.; UHR: Yoshitsugu Kobayashi; UMO BT: Joachim Rabold; UMZC: Jason Head, Tom White; UofT: Robert Reisz; WMsN: Lothar Schöllmann; YPM: Jacques Gauthier, Daniel Brinkman; ZPAL: Magdalena Borsuk-Białynicka, Adam Halamski.
INSTITUTIONAL ABBREVIATIONS
AM – Grahamstown, South Africa
AMNH – American Museum of Natural History, New York-NY, USA.
AUP – University of Aberdeen Paleontology collection
BPI – Evolutionary Studies (former Bernard Price) Institute for Palaeontological Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
BSPG – Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie, Munich, Germany
BU – University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
CJB – Chris J. Bell personal collection
CM – Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
DGM – Departamento Nacional de Producão Mineral, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
DNM – Dinosaur Natinal Monument, Utah, USA.
FMNH – Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA.
GMPKU – Geological Museum of Peking University, Beijing, China.
GMV – Geological Museum of China, Beijing, China.
HUJ-PAL – Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Palaeontology Collections, Jerusalem, Israel.
IGM – Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
IVPP – Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China.
KUVP – Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KA, USA.
LH – Museo de Cuenca (Las Hoyas material), Cuenca, Spain.
MACN – Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia,” Buenos Aires, Argentina
MB – Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
MBSN – Museo Brembano di Scienzi Naturali, San Pelegrino, Bergamo, Italy.
MCZ – Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
MFSN – Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale, Udine, Italy.
MGB, Museu de Geologia de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
MGM – McGregor Museum – Kimberely, South Africa
MLP – Museu de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
MN – Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
MNHN – Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
MPCA – Museo Carlos Ameghino, Cipolletti, Río Negro Province, Argentina
MPSC – Museu de Paleontologia de Santana do Cariri, Santana do Cariri, Ceará, Brazil.
MSNM – Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Milano, Italy.
NHMUK – Natural History Museum, London, UK.
NHMW – Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
NMMNH – New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque
NMNH – National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA.
NMOK – Naturkundemuseum im Ottoneum Kassel, Kassel, Germany.
NMQR – National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
NMS – National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
NSM – National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan
PIN – Paleontological Institute, Academia Nauk, Moscow, Russia
PIMUZ – Paläontologisches Institut und Museum der Universität Zürich, Switzerland
PKU – Peking University, Beijing, China.
PMU – Paleontological Museum, Uppsala.
PZ – Museo Archeologico dell’Alto Adige, Bolzano (Bozen), Italy.
SAM – South Africa Museum (Iziko Museums), Cape Town, South Africa.
SMF – Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
SMNS – Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany.
SSWG – Sektion Geologie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universitat, Greifswald, Germany
TM – Ditsong (former Transvaal) Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
TMM – Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, Texas, USA.
TMP – Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada
UALVP – University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology (Department of Biological Sciences), Edmonton, Canada.
UAMZ – University of Alberta Museum of Zoology, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
UFRGS – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
UFSM – Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria-RS, Brazil.
UHR – Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
UMO BT – Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken, Bayreuth, Germany.
UMZC –Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, UK.
WMsN – Westfalisches Museum fur Naturkunde, Munster, Germany.
YPM – Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CO, USA.
ZPAL – Institute of Paleobiology Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland