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Publications (20)      

1. Burch, Helen, Hannah-Marie Eddins, Michelle R. Stocker, Ben Kligman, Adam D. Marsh, William G. Parker & Sterling J. Nesbitt. 2024 A small venomous reptile from the Late Triassic (Norian) of the southwestern United States PeerJ 12: e18279.
2. Butler, Richard J., Sterling J. Nesbitt, Alan J. Charig, David J. Gower & Paul M. Barrett. 2018 Mandasuchus tanyauchen, gen. et sp. nov., a pseudosuchian archosaur from the Manda Beds (? Middle Triassic) of Tanzania Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6, Supplement): 96–121.
3. Ezcurra, Martin D., Saswati Bandyopadhyay, Dhurjati P. Sengupta, Kasturi Sen, Andrey G. Sennikov, Roland Sookias, Sterling J. Nesbitt & Richard J. Butler. 2023 A new archosauriform species from the Lower Triassic Panchet Formation of India sheds light on a new clade of Proterosuchidae and their diversification during the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction Royal Society Open Science 10(230387).
4. Kammerer, Christian F., Sterling J. Nesbitt & Neil H. Shubin. 2012 The first silesaurid dinosauriform from the Late Triassic of Morocco Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(2): 277–284.
5. Kammerer, Christian F., Sterling J. Nesbitt, John J. Flynn, Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana & André R. Wyss. 2020 A tiny ornithodiran archosaur from the Triassic of Madagascar and the role of miniaturization in dinosaur and pterosaur ancestry Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117(30): 17932–17936.
6. Kligman, Ben, Adam Marsh, Sterling J. Nesbitt, William Parker & Michelle R. Stocker. 2020 New trilophosaurid species demonstrates a decline in allokotosaur diversity across the Adamanian-Revueltian boundary in the Late Triassic of western North America Palaeodiversity.
7. Kligman, Ben, Bryan M. Gee, Adam D. Marsh, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Matthew E. Smith, William G. Parker & Michelle R. Stocker. 2023 Triassic stem caecilian supports dissorophoid origin of living amphibians Nature 614: 102-107.
8. Marsh, Adam D., William G. Parker, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Ben Kligman & Michelle R. Stocker. 2022 Puercosuchus traverorum n. gen. and sp.: a new malerisaurine azendohsaurid (Archosauromorpha: Allokotosauria) from two monodominant bonebeds in the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic, Norian) of Arizona Journal of Paleontology 96(S90): 1-39.
9. Müller, Rodrigo T., M. B. Von Baczko, Julia Desojo & Sterling J. Nesbitt. 2020 The first ornithosuchid from Brazil and its macroevolutionary and phylogenetic implications for Late Triassic faunas in Gondwana Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
10. Müller, Rodrigo T., M. B. Von Baczko, Julia Desojo & Sterling J. Nesbitt. 2020 The first ornithosuchid from Brazil and its macroevolutionary and phylogenetic implications for Late Triassic faunas in Gondwana Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65(1): 1–10.
11. Müller, Rodrigo T., M. B. Von Baczko, Julia Desojo & Sterling J. Nesbitt. 2020 The first ornithosuchid from Brazil and its macroevolutionary and phylogenetic implications for Late Triassic faunas in Gondwana Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
12. Müller, Rodrigo T., Martin D. Ezcurra, Maurício García, Federico L. Agnolin, Michelle R. Stocker, Fernando E. Novas, Marina B. Soares, Alexander W. A. Kellner & Sterling J. Nesbitt. 2023 New reptile shows dinosaurs and pterosaurs evolved among diverse precursors Nature.
13. Nesbitt, Sterling J., Emily Patellos, Christian F. Kammerer, Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana, André R. Wyss & John J. Flynn. 2023 The earliest-diverging avemetatarsalian: A new, osteoderm-bearing taxon from the Triassic of Madagascar and the composition of avemetatarsalian assemblages prior to the radiation of dinosaurs Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
14. Nesbitt, Sterling J., John J. Flynn, A. C. Pritchard, J. M. Parrish, Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana & André R. Wyss. 2015 Postcranial osteology of Azendohsaurus madagaskarensis (?Middle to Upper Triassic, Isalo Group, Madagascar) and its systematic position among stem archosaur reptiles Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 398: 1-126.
15. Nesbitt, Sterling J., Michelle R. Stocker, Martin D. Ezcurra, Nicholas C. Fraser, Andrew Heckert, William Parker, Bill Mueller, Saradee Sengupta, Saswati Bandyopadhyay, Adam Pritchard & Adam Marsh. 2021 Widespread azendohsaurids (Archosauromorpha, Allokotosauria) from the Late Triassic of the western United States and India Papers in Palaeontology.
16. Nesbitt, Sterling J., Paul M. Barrett, Sarah Werning, Christian A. Sidor & Alan J. Charig. 2013 The oldest dinosaur? A Middle Triassic dinosauriform from Tanzania Biology Letters 9: 20120949.
17. Nesbitt, Sterling J., Richard J. Butler, Martin D. Ezcurra, Paul M. Barrett, Michelle R. Stocker, K. D. Angielczyk, Roger M. H. Smith, Christian A. Sidor, Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki, Andrey G. Sennikov & Alan J. Charig. 2017 The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan Nature 544: 484–487.
18. Pugh, Isaac, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Andrew Heckert, René Lauer & Bruce Lauer. 2024 A new drepanosauromorph (Diapsida) from East-Central New Mexico and diversity of drepanosaur morphology and ecology at the Upper Triassic Homestead Site at Garita Creek (Triassic: mid-Norian) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
19. Stack, Jack, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Maranda L. Stricklin & Michelle R. Stocker. 2025 A new species of the ray-finned fish Saurichthys (Actinopterygii) from the Dockum Group of Texas (Upper Triassic, Norian Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
20. Steyer, J S., Brandon Peecook, Thomas Arbez, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Steve Tolan, Michelle R. Stocker, Roger M. H. Smith, K. D. Angielczyk & Christian A. Sidor. 2021 New data on the Triassic temnospondyls from the Karoo rift basins of Tanzania and Zambia Geodiversitas 43(12): 365-376.