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Max C. Langer is a researcher affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their work is primarily situated within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology. They have contributed extensively to the subfields of Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research topics encompass multiple areas within biological and environmental sciences. These topics include:

  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Turtle Biology and Conservation
  • Morphological variations and asymmetry

Max C. Langer has published research in various academic venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being:

  • Cretaceous Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Anatomical Record
  • Papers in Palaeontology
  • Historical Biology

Their recent published papers include:

  • Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria, 2020, Nature
  • The Late Triassic Ischigualasto Formation at Cerro Las Lajas (La Rioja, Argentina): fossil tetrapods, high-resolution chronostratigraphy, and faunal correlations, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Review of the fossil record of early dinosaurs from South America, and its phylogenetic implications, 2021, Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Deep evolutionary diversification of semicircular canals in archosaurs, 2021, Current Biology
  • Africa's oldest dinosaurs reveal early suppression of dinosaur distribution, 2022, Nature

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Felipe C. Montefeltro
  • Pedro L. Godoy
  • Sterling J. Nesbitt
  • Mario Bronzati
  • Júlio C. A. Marsola

Best Publications

  • The origin and early evolution of dinosaurs

    Max C. Langer;Martin Daniel Ezcurra;Jonathas de Souza Bittencourt;Fernando Emilio Novas

  • The higher-level phylogeny of Archosauria (Tetrapoda: Diapsida)

    Stephen L. Brusatte;Michael J. Benton;Julia B. Desojo;Max C. Langer

  • Early dinosaurs: A phylogenetic study

    Max C. Langer;Michael J. Benton

  • A Unique Late Triassic Dinosauromorph Assemblage Reveals Dinosaur Ancestral Anatomy and Diet

    Sergio Furtado Cabreira;Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner;Sérgio Dias-da-Silva;Lúcio Roberto da Silva;Lúcio Roberto da Silva

  • THE CONTINENTAL TETRAPOD-BEARING TRIASSIC OF SOUTH BRAZIL

    Max C. Langer;Ana M. Ribeiro;Cesar L. Schultz;Jorge Ferigolo

  • U-Pb age constraints on dinosaur rise from south Brazil

    Max C. Langer;Jahandar Ramezani;Átila A.S. Da Rosa

  • A sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Upper Triassic (Carman) of southern Brazil

    Max C. Langer;Fernando Abdala;Martha Richter;Michael J. Benton

  • A Late Triassic dinosauriform from south Brazil and the origin of the ornithischian predentary bone

    Jorge Ferigolo;Max C. Langer

  • Models for the rise of the dinosaurs

    Michael J. Benton;Jonathan Forth;Max C. Langer

  • New stem-sauropodomorph (Dinosauria, Saurischia) from the Triassic of Brazil

    Sergio F. Cabreira;Cesar L. Schultz;Jonathas S. Bittencourt;Marina B. Soares

  • Studies on continental Late Triassic tetrapod biochronology. II. The Ischigualastian and a Carnian global correlation

    Max Cardoso Langer

  • Untangling the dinosaur family tree

    Max C. Langer;Martin Daniel Ezcurra;Oliver Walter Mischa Rauhut;Michael J. Benton

  • Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria

    Martin Daniel Ezcurra;Martin Daniel Ezcurra;Sterling J. Nesbitt;Mario Bronzati;Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia

  • A genus-level supertree of the Dinosauria

    Davide Pisani;Adam M Yates;Max C Langer;Michael J Benton

  • THE PECTORAL GIRDLE AND FORELIMB ANATOMY OF THE STEM-SAUROPODOMORPH SATURNALIA TUPINIQUIM (UPPER TRIASSIC, BRAZIL)

    Max C. Langer;Stefan G Abriel

  • Non-dinosaurian Dinosauromorpha

    Max C. Langer;Sterling J. Nesbitt;Jonathas S. Bittencourt;Jonathas S. Bittencourt;Randall B. Irmis

  • Mesozoic dinosaurs from Brazil and their biogeographic implications

    Jonathas S Bittencourt;Max C Langer

  • Early evolution of sauropodomorphs: anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of a remarkably well-preserved dinosaur from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil

    Rodrigo T Müller;Max C Langer;Mario Bronzati;Cristian P Pacheco

  • The Late Triassic dinosauromorph Sacisaurus agudoensis (Caturrita Formation; Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil): anatomy and affinities

    Max C. Langer;Jorge Ferigolo

  • Skull and brain of a 300-million-year-old chimaeroid fish revealed by synchrotron holotomography.

    Alan Pradel;Max Langer;John G. Maisey;Didier Geffard-Kuriyama

  • Diversification events and the effects of mass extinctions on Crocodyliformes evolutionary history

    Mario Bronzati;Felipe Chinaglia Montefeltro;Max Cardoso Langer

  • A New Baurusuchid (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil and the Phylogeny of Baurusuchidae

    Felipe C. Montefeltro;Hans C. E. Larsson;Max C. Langer

Frequent Co-Authors

Cesar L. Schultz
Cesar L. Schultz Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Martín D. Ezcurra
Martín D. Ezcurra University of Birmingham
Agustín G. Martinelli
Agustín G. Martinelli National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Sterling J. Nesbitt
Sterling J. Nesbitt Virginia Tech
Michael J. Benton
Michael J. Benton University of Bristol
Randall B. Irmis
Randall B. Irmis University of Utah
Richard J. Butler
Richard J. Butler University of Birmingham
Fernando E. Novas
Fernando E. Novas Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum
Roger B. J. Benson
Roger B. J. Benson University of Oxford

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