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ArticleNature2025

Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate.

Roger B J Benson, Stig A Walsh, Elizabeth F Griffiths, Zoe T Kulik, Jennifer Botha, Vincent Fernandez, Jason J Head, Susan E Evans

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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Roger B J BensonDivision of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA. rbenson@amnh.org.ORCID 0000-0001-8244-6177
Stig A WalshNatural Sciences Department, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.
Elizabeth F GriffithsEducation Services, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Zoe T KulikDivision of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA.
Jennifer BothaEvolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand and GENUS:DSTI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Vincent FernandezEuropean Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France.ORCID 0000-0002-8315-1458
Jason J HeadDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Susan E EvansDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, UK. s.e.evans@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-0799-4154

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Squamates (lizards and snakes) comprise almost 12,000 living species, with wide ecological diversity and a crown group that originated around 190 million years ago

Indexed as

FossilsLizardsPhylogenySnakesAnimalsBiological EvolutionJawScotlandTooth

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PMID41034584
PMCPMC12629976

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