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Publications (15)      

1. Bittencourt, Jonathas S., Tiago R. Simões, Michael W. Caldwell & Max C. Langer. 2020 Discovery of the oldest South American fossil lizard illustrates the cosmopolitanism of early South American squamates Communications Biology 3(201).
2. Caldwell, Michael W., Randall L. Nydam, Alessandro Palci & Sebastián Apesteguía. 2014 The oldest known snakes from the Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous provide insights on snake evolution Nature Communications: 1-11.
3. Campbell Mekarski, Michelle, Drazen Japundzic, Katarina Krizmanic & Michael W. Caldwell. 2019 Description of a new basal mosasauroid from the Late Cretaceous of Croatia with comments on the evolution of the mosasauroid forelimb Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39.
4. Hsiou, Annie S., Randall L. Nydam, Tiago R. Simões, Flávio A. Pretto, Silvio Onary, Agustin G. Martinelli, Alexandre Liparini, Paulo R. Romo de Vivar Martínez, Marina B. Soares, Cesar L. Schultz & Michael W. Caldwell. 2019 A New Clevosaurid from the Triassic (Carnian) of Brazil and the Rise of Sphenodontians in Gondwana Scientific Reports 9(11821): 1-12.
5. Jiménez-Huidobro, Paulina, Michael W. Caldwell, Ilaria Paparella & Timon S. Bullard. 2018 A new species of tylosaurine mosasaur from the upper Campanian Bearpaw Formation of Saskatchewan, Canada Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
6. Kellner, Alexander W. A., Michael W. Caldwell, Borja Holgado, Fabio M. Dalla Vecchia, Roy Nohra, Juliana M. Sayão & Philip J. Currie. 2019 First complete pterosaur from the Afro-Arabian continent: insight into pterodactyloid diversity Scientific Reports 9: 17875.
7. Konishi, Takuya, Masaaki Ohara, Akihiro Misaki, Hiroshige Matsuoka, Hallie Street & Michael W. Caldwell. 2023 A new derived mosasaurine (Squamata: Mosasaurinae) from south-western Japan reveals unexpected postcranial diversity among hydropedal mosasaurs Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
8. Konishi, Takuya, Michael W. Caldwell, Tomohiro Nishimura, Kazuhiko Sakurai & Kyo Tanoue. 2015 A new halisaurine mosasaur (Squamata: Halisaurinae) from Japan: the first record in the western Pacific realm and the first documented insights into binocular vision in mosasaurs Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
9. Makádi, László, Michael W. Caldwell & Attila Ősi. 2012 The First Freshwater Mosasauroid (Upper Cretaceous, Hungary) and a New Clade of Basal Mosasauroids Public Library of Science, ONE 7(12): e51781.
10. Paparella, Ilaria, Alessandro Palci, Umberto Nicosia & Michael W. Caldwell. 2018 A new fossil marine lizard with soft tissues from the Late Cretaceous of Southern Italy Royal Society Open Science.
11. Paparella, Ilaria, Erin E. Maxwell, Angelo Cipriani, Scilla Roncacè & Michael W. Caldwell. 2016 The first ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic of the Umbrian–Marchean Apennines (Marche, Central Italy) Geological Magazine: 22.
12. Simões, Tiago R., Everton Wilner, Michael W. Caldwell, Luiz C. Weinschütz & Alexander W. A. Kellner. 2015 A stem acrodontan lizard in the Cretaceous of Brazil revises early lizard evolution in Gondwana Nature Communications.
13. Simões, Tiago R., Michael W. Caldwell & Alexander W. A. Kellner. 2014 A new Early Cretaceous lizard species from Brazil, and the phylogenetic position of the oldest known South American squamates Journal of systematic palaeontology.
14. Strong, Catherine, Michael W. Caldwell, Takuya Konishi & Alessandro Palci. 2020 A new species of longirostrine plioplatecarpine mosasaur (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco, with a re-evaluation of the problematic taxon ‘Platecarpus’ ptychodon Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
15. Xing, Lida, Michael W. Caldwell, Rui Chen, Randall L. Nydam, Alessandro Palci, Tiago R. Simões, Ryan C. McKellar, Michael S. Y. Lee, Ye Liu, Hongliang Shi, Kuan Wang & Ming Bai. 2018 A mid-Cretaceous embryonic-to-neonate snake in amber from Myanmar Science Advances.