Special Papers in Palaeontology, Patterns and Processes in Early Vertebrate Evolution

Marcello Ruta is an Italian paleontologist. Ruta's research primarily has focused on the anatomy and evolutionary significance of Paleozoic tetrapods.

• An articulated specimen of Chroniosaurus dongusensis and the morphology and relationships of the chroniosuchids / Jennifer A. Clack and Jozef Klembara The early Cretaceous lizards of eastern Asia: new material of Sakurasaurus from Japan / Susan E. Evans and Makoto ManabeNew cranial and dental features of Discosauriscus austriacus (Seymouriamorpha, Discosauriscidae) and the ontogenetic conditions of Discosauriscus / Jozef KlembaraA revision of Scincosaurus (Tetropoda, Netridea) from the Moscovian of Nýřany, Czech Republic, and the phylogeny and interrelationships of nectrideans / Angela C. Milner and Marcello RutaPatterns of morphological evolution in major groups of Palaeozoic Temnospondyli (Amphibia: Tertapoda) / Marcello RutaThe temnospondyl Glanochthon from the Lower Permian Meisenheim formation of Germany / Rainer R. Schoch and Florian WitzmannThe postcranium of Cochleosaurus bohemicus Frič, a primitive Upper Carboniferous temnospondyl from the Czech Republic / Sandra E.K. SequeiraFirst evidence of a temnospondyl in the Late Permian of the Argana Basin, Morocco / Sébastien Steyer and Nour-Eddine JalilUnique stereospondyl mandibles from the Early Triassic Panchet formation of India and the Arcadia formation of Australia / Anne Warren, Ross Damiani and Dhurjati P. Sengupta