Max C. Langer

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
151 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Max C. Langer is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Max C. Langer has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 143 papers in Paleontology, 104 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Max C. Langer's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (136 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (115 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (92 papers). Max C. Langer is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (136 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (115 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (92 papers). Max C. Langer collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and Germany. Max C. Langer's co-authors include Michael J. Benton, Jonathas S. Bittencourt, Felipe C. Montefeltro, César Leandro Schultz, Jorge Ferigolo, Mario Bronzati, Martín D. Ezcurra, Rodrigo Temp Müller, Fernando E. Novas and Átila Augusto Stock da Rosa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Max C. Langer

146 papers receiving 5.3k citations

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U-Pb age constraints on dinosaur rise from south Brazil

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Max C. Langer Brazil	44	5.1k	3.6k	932	215	157	151	5.5k
Christian A. Sidor United States	35	4.4k 0.9×	2.6k 0.7×	732 0.8×	245 1.1×	220 1.4×	125	4.7k
Martín D. Ezcurra Argentina	41	5.0k 1.0×	3.4k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	198 0.9×	167 1.1×	164	5.2k
Rainer R. Schoch Germany	39	3.9k 0.8×	2.4k 0.7×	1.5k 1.6×	315 1.5×	230 1.5×	173	4.3k
Pascal Godefroit Belgium	35	2.9k 0.6×	1.8k 0.5×	581 0.6×	145 0.7×	127 0.8×	111	3.2k
Federico L. Agnolín Argentina	33	3.5k 0.7×	2.6k 0.7×	754 0.8×	356 1.7×	88 0.6×	242	4.0k
Ángela D. Buscalioni Spain	34	2.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.4×	418 0.4×	242 1.1×	266 1.7×	116	3.1k
Oliver W. M. Rauhut Germany	41	4.5k 0.9×	3.0k 0.8×	820 0.9×	193 0.9×	224 1.4×	107	4.7k
Scott D. Sampson United States	30	3.2k 0.6×	2.0k 0.6×	709 0.8×	199 0.9×	134 0.9×	52	3.6k
Massimo Delfino Italy	32	2.2k 0.4×	1.5k 0.4×	1.2k 1.2×	514 2.4×	176 1.1×	199	3.2k
Sebastián Apesteguı́a Argentina	33	2.9k 0.6×	1.9k 0.5×	810 0.9×	191 0.9×	58 0.4×	81	3.1k

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Funston, Gregory F., Sterling J. Nesbitt, Júlio C. A. Marsola, et al.. (2025). The histology of rhynchosaur (Diapsida, Archosauromorpha) ankylothecodonty. Journal of Anatomy. 248(3). 526–540.

Boscaini, Alberto, Daniel Casali, Néstor Toledo, et al.. (2025). The emergence and demise of giant sloths. Science. 388(6749). 864–868. 2 indexed citations

Soto, Matías, et al.. (2024). Phylogenetic relationships of a new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Uruguay. Cretaceous Research. 160. 105894–105894. 1 indexed citations

Ferreira, Gabriel S., Elmiro Rosendo do Nascimento, Edwin‐Alberto Cadena, et al.. (2024). The latest freshwater giants: a new Peltocephalus (Pleurodira: Podocnemididae) turtle from the Late Pleistocene of the Brazilian Amazon. Biology Letters. 20(3). 20240010–20240010. 5 indexed citations

Bardet, Nathalie, et al.. (2024). Recovering lost time in Syria: New Late Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian) elasmosaurid remains from the Palmyrides mountain chain. Cretaceous Research. 159. 105871–105871.

Godoy, Pedro L., et al.. (2024). A new Peirosauridae (Crocodyliformes, Notosuchia) from the Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group, Late Cretaceous), with a revised phylogenetic analysis of Sebecia. The Anatomical Record. 308(2). 574–597. 5 indexed citations

Godoy, Pedro L., et al.. (2023). Turtle body size evolution is determined by lineage‐specific specializations rather than global trends. Ecology and Evolution. 13(6). 15 indexed citations

Bronzati, Mario, Max C. Langer, Martín D. Ezcurra, Michelle R. Stocker, & Sterling J. Nesbitt. (2023). Braincase and neuroanatomy of the lagerpetid Dromomeron gregorii (Archosauria, Pterosauromorpha) with comments on the early evolution of the braincase and associated soft tissues in Avemetatarsalia. The Anatomical Record. 307(4). 1147–1174. 4 indexed citations

Marinho, Thiago da Silva, Felipe C. Montefeltro, Max C. Langer, et al.. (2022). Osteohistological characterization of notosuchian osteoderms: Evidence for an overlying thick leathery layer of skin. Journal of Morphology. 284(1). e21536–e21536. 8 indexed citations

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Agnolín, Federico L., Federico Brissón Egli, Martín D. Ezcurra, Max C. Langer, & Fernando E. Novas. (2021). New specimens provide insights into the anatomy of the dinosauriform Lewisuchus admixtus Romer, 1972 from the upper Triassic levels of the Chañares Formation, NW Argentina. The Anatomical Record. 305(5). 1119–1146. 12 indexed citations

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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(1). 201–201. 28 indexed citations

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Langer, Max C., et al.. (2018). Inferring ancestral range reconstruction based on trilobite records: a study-case on Metacryphaeus (Phacopida, Calmoniidae). Scientific Reports. 8(1). 15179–15179. 12 indexed citations

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Marsola, Júlio C. A., Gabriel S. Ferreira, Max C. Langer, David J. Button, & Richard J. Butler. (2018). Increases in sampling support the southern Gondwanan hypothesis for the origin of dinosaurs. Palaeontology. 62(3). 473–482. 21 indexed citations

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Bronzati, Mario, Max C. Langer, & Oliver W. M. Rauhut. (2018). Braincase anatomy of the early sauropodomorphSaturnalia tupiniquim(Late Triassic, Brazil). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 38(5). e1559173–e1559173. 8 indexed citations

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Müller, Rodrigo Temp, Max C. Langer, & Sérgio Dias‐da‐Silva. (2016). Biostratigraphic significance of a new early sauropodomorph specimen from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil. Historical Biology. 29(2). 187–202. 22 indexed citations

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Langer, Max C., Sterling J. Nesbitt, Jonathas S. Bittencourt, & Randall B. Irmis. (2013). Non-dinosaurian dinosauromorpha. Journal of the Geological Society. 1 indexed citations

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Brusatte, Stephen L., Michael J. Benton, Julia B. Desojo, & Max C. Langer. (2010). The higher-level phylogeny of Archosauria (Tetrapoda: Diapsida). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 8(1). 3–47. 202 indexed citations

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Langer, Max C., et al.. (2010). Sobre um espécime de anfíbio Temnospondyli procedente da Serra do Cadeado, Paraná. 1 indexed citations

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Ferigolo, Jorge & Max C. Langer. (2006). A Late Triassic dinosauriform from south Brazil and the origin of the ornithischian predentary bone. Historical Biology. 19(1). 23–33. 112 indexed citations

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França, Marco Aurélio Gallo de & Max C. Langer. (2005). A new freshwater turtle (Reptilia, Pleurodira, Podocnemidae) from the upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Geodiversitas. 27(3). 391–411. 43 indexed citations

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