Sterling J. Nesbitt

Sterling Nesbitt (born March 25, 1982), U.S. paleontologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 12 taxon names authored by Sterling J. Nesbitt

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2007

• Nesbitt S.J., Irmis, R. B. & Parker, W. G. 2007. A critical reevaluation of the Late Triassic dinosaur taxa of North America. Journal of Systematic Paleontology 5: 209–243.
• Nesbitt, S. 2007. The anatomy of Effigia okeeffeae (Archosauria, Suchia), theropod-like convergence, and the distribution of related taxa. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 302: 84 pp.

2008

• Nesbitt, S.J. & Stocker, M.R. 2008. The vertebrate assemblage of the Late Triassic Canjilon Quarry, (Northern New Mexico, USA) and the importance of apomorphy-based assemblage comparisons. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28: 1063–1072.

2009

• Nesbitt, S.J., Smith, N. D., Irmis, R. B., Turner, A. H.; Downs, A. & Norell, M. A. 2009. A complete skeleton of a Late Triassic saurischian and the early evolution of dinosaurs. (PDF), Science, 326 (5959): 1530–1533, PMID: 20007898

2011

• Nesbitt, S.J. 2011. The Early Evolution of Archosaurs: Relationships and the Origin of Major Clades. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 352: 1–292. hdl: 2246/6112 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Sues, H.-D., Nesbitt, S.J., Berman, D.S. & Henrici, A.C. 2011. A late-surviving basal theropod dinosaur from the latest Triassic of North America. Proceedings of the Royal Society B volume 278, issue 1723, pp. 3459–3464. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0410 Reference page. 

2013

• Nesbitt, S.J., Barrett, P.M., Werning, S., Sidor, C.A., & Charig, A.J. 2013. The oldest dinosaur? A Middle Triassic dinosauriform from Tanzania. Biology Letters 9(1): 20120949. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0949 . PMC: 3565515. PMID: 23221875 Reference page. 

2016

• Nesbitt, S.J. & Clarke, J.A. 2016. The anatomy and taxonomy of the exquisitely preserved Green River Formation (early Eocene) lithornithids (Aves) and the relationships of Lithornithidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 406: 1–91. hdl: 2246/6664 Reference page. 

2017

• Nesbitt, S.J., Butler, R.J., Ezcurra, M.D., Barrett, P.M., Stocker, M.R., Angielczyk, K.D., Smith, R.M.H., Sidor, C.A., Niedźwiedzki, G., Sennikov, A.G. & Charig, A.J. 2017. The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan. Nature 544: 484–487. DOI: 10.1038/nature22037 ResearchGate Reference page. 

2020

• Ezcurra, M.D., Nesbitt, S.J., Bronzati, M., Dalla Vecchia, F.M., Agnolin, F.L., Benson, R.B.J., Egli, F.B., Cabreira, S.F., Evers, S.W., Gentil, A.R., Irmis, R.B., Martinelli, A.G., Novas, F.E., da Silva, L.R., Smith, N.D., Stocker, M.R., Turner, A.H. & Langer, M.C. 2020. Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria. Nature 588: 445–449. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-3011-4 Reference page.