Skye McDavid

Authored Publications

McDavid SN (2025) Huenesuchus is an objective synonym of Prestosuchus while 'class-group names' do not exist in and are not regulated by the ICZN: a response to Kischlat. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 27(4):e20240425 doi:10.4072/rbp.2024.4.0425 [PDF] [ResearchGate]

McDavid SN & Thomas HN (2025) The putative pterosaur tracks at Gunston Hall (Potomac Group, Cretaceous of Virginia) are examples of erosion. The Mosasaur 14: 13-21 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14991719 [PDF]

Hone DWE & McDavid SN (2025) A giant specimen of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri with comments on the ontogeny of rhamphorhynchines. PeerJ 13:e18587 doi:10.7717/peerj.18587 [PDF] [ResearchGate]

Bugos JE & McDavid SN (2024) Immature skulls of the theropod dinosaur Coelophysis bauri from Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69(4): 549-563 doi:10.4202/app.01085.2023 [PDF] [ResearchGate]

McDavid SN & Perkins J (2023) The authorship of Astrodon (Dinosauria, Sauropoda): Leidy, 1865, not Johnston, 1859. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 80(1):109-111 doi: 10.21805/bzn.v80.a031 [PDF] [ResearchGate]

McDavid SN & Hooks GE III (2023) Kansastega, nom. nov., a replacement name for Microstega Hooks, preoccupied by Meyrick. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 43(1): e2252648 doi: 10.1080/02724634.2023.2252648 [PDF] [T&F, archived]

McDavid SN (2023) Atlantochelys mortoni: nomenclatural note on a giant sea turtle from the Cretaceous of New Jersey. The Mosasaur 13: 67-71 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.8231507 [PDF] [ResearchGate]

McDavid SN & Bugos JE (2022) Taxonomic notes on Megapnosaurus and 'Syntarsus' (Theropoda: Coelophysidae). The Mosasaur 12: 1-5 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7027378 [PDF] [ResearchGate]

Illustrated Publications

Thomas HN, Hone DWE, Gomes T, Peterson JE (2025) Infernodrakon hastacollis gen. et sp. nov., a new azhdarchid pterosaur from the Hell Creek Formation of Montana, and the pterosaur diversity of Maastrichtian North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: e2442476 doi: 10.1080/02724634.2024.2442476 [PDF available upon request]

Hone DWE, Fitch A, Selzer S, Lauer R, Lauer B (2024) A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs. Current Biology 34:1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.10.023 [PDF]

Hone DWE, Lauer R, Lauer B, Spindler F (2023) Petrodactyle wellnhoferi gen. et sp. nov.: a new and large ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of Germany. Palaeontologia Electronica 26(2):a25 doi: 10.26879/1251 [PDF]

Hone DWE (2023) The anatomy and diversity of the pterosaurian sternum. Palaeontologia Electronica 26(1):a12 doi: 10.26879/1261 [PDF]

Conference Presentations

McDavid SN, Thomas HN, Lauer R, Lauer B (2025) A new germanodactylid pterosaur from the Tithonian Mörnsheim Formation of Mühlheim, southern Germany. Northeast Regional Vertebrate Evolution Symposium, Stony Brook, New York.

Thomas HN & McDavid SN (2025) Pterosaurs from the paleocontinent of Appalachia. Northeast Regional Vertebrate Evolution Symposium, Stony Brook, New York.

Hartman S & McDavid SN (2024) Best practices for fossil vertebrate skeletal diagrams. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 84th Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota. [Poster]

Bugos JE & McDavid SN (2023) Juvenile skulls of Coelophysis bauri from Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 83rd Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio. [Abstract] [Poster]

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