Sean P. Modesto

2.7k total citations
74 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Sean P. Modesto is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean P. Modesto has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Paleontology, 33 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Sean P. Modesto's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (71 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (66 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (31 papers). Sean P. Modesto is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (71 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (66 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (31 papers). Sean P. Modesto collaborates with scholars based in Canada, South Africa and United States. Sean P. Modesto's co-authors include Robert R. Reisz, R Damiani, Jennifer Botha, Hans‐Dieter Sues, Bruce S. Rubidge, Diane Scott, Johann Welman, Adam M. Yates, Johann Neveling and Darla K. Zelenitsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Systematic Biology.

In The Last Decade

Sean P. Modesto

73 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Peers

Sean P. Modesto
Adam M. Yates South Africa
Yoshitsugu Kobayashi Japan
Junchang Lü China
Ricardo N. Martínez Argentina
Fabien Knoll Spain
Juliana Sterli Argentina
Christian F. Kammerer United States
Angela C. Milner United Kingdom
Lindsay E. Zanno United States
Zhi-Ming Dong China
Adam M. Yates South Africa
Sean P. Modesto
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All Works

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Zelenitsky, Darla K., Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Sean P. Modesto, et al.. (2025). A new Mongolian tyrannosauroid and the evolution of Eutyrannosauria. Nature. 642(8069). 973–979. 2 indexed citations
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Modesto, Sean P.. (2024). Problems of the interrelationships of crown and stem amniotes. Frontiers in Earth Science. 12. 1 indexed citations
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Dias‐da‐Silva, Sérgio, Felipe L. Pinheiro, Átila Augusto Stock Da‐Rosa, et al.. (2017). Biostratigraphic reappraisal of the Lower Triassic Sanga do Cabral Supersequence from South America, with a description of new material attributable to the parareptile genus Procolophon. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 79. 281–296. 30 indexed citations
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MacDougall, Mark J., Diane Scott, Sean P. Modesto, Scott A. Williams, & Robert R. Reisz. (2017). New material of the reptile Colobomycter pholeter (Parareptilia: Lanthanosuchoidea) and the diversity of reptiles during the Early Permian (Cisuralian). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 180(3). 661–671. 22 indexed citations
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Modesto, Sean P., Roger M. H. Smith, Nicolás E. Campione, & Robert R. Reisz. (2011). The last “pelycosaur”: a varanopid synapsid from the Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone, Middle Permian of South Africa. Die Naturwissenschaften. 98(12). 1027–1034. 29 indexed citations
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Reisz, Robert R., Diane Scott, Bruce R. Pynn, & Sean P. Modesto. (2011). Osteomyelitis in a Paleozoic reptile: ancient evidence for bacterial infection and its evolutionary significance. Die Naturwissenschaften. 98(6). 551–555. 22 indexed citations
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Botha, Jennifer & Sean P. Modesto. (2011). A new skeleton of the therocephalian synapsid Olivierosuchus parringtoni from the Lower Triassic South African Karoo Basin. Palaeontology. 54(3). 591–606. 18 indexed citations
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Modesto, Sean P.. (2010). The postcranial skeleton of the aquatic parareptile Mesosaurus tenuidens from the Gondwanan Permian. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30(5). 1378–1395. 40 indexed citations
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Botha, Jennifer & Sean P. Modesto. (2009). Anatomy and relationships of the Middle Permian varanopidHeleosaurus scholtzibased on a social aggregation from the Karoo Basin of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29(2). 389–400. 28 indexed citations
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Modesto, Sean P. & Robert R. Reisz. (2008). New material ofColobomycter pholeter, a small parareptile from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 28(3). 677–684. 33 indexed citations
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Botha, Jennifer, Sean P. Modesto, & Roger M. H. Smith. (2007). Extended procolophonoid reptile survivorship after the end-Permian extinction. South African Journal of Science. 103. 54–56. 17 indexed citations
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Modesto, Sean P. & R Damiani. (2007). The procolophonoid reptileSauropareion anoplusfrom the lowermost Triassic of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27(2). 337–349. 25 indexed citations
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Botha, Jennifer & Sean P. Modesto. (2007). A mixed-age classed ‘pelycosaur’ aggregation from South Africa: earliest evidence of parental care in amniotes?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 274(1627). 2829–2834. 47 indexed citations
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Dias‐da‐Silva, Sérgio, Sean P. Modesto, & César Leandro Schultz. (2006). New material ofProcolophon(Parareptilia: Procolophonoidea) from the Lower Triassic of Brazil, with remarks on the ages of the Sanga do Cabral and Buena Vista formations of South America. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 43(11). 1685–1693. 35 indexed citations
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Modesto, Sean P. & Robert R. Reisz. (2003). An enigmatic new diapsid reptile from the Upper Permian of eastern Europe. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 22(4). 851–855. 25 indexed citations
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Zelenitsky, Darla K. & Sean P. Modesto. (2002). Re-evaluation of the eggshell structure of eggs containing dinosaur embryos from the Lower Jurassic of South Africa. South African Journal of Science. 98. 407–408. 12 indexed citations
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Modesto, Sean P., R Damiani, & Hans‐Dieter Sues. (2002). A Reappraisal Of Coletta Seca, A Basal Procolophonoid Reptile From The Lower Triassic Of South Africa. Palaeontology. 45(5). 883–895. 33 indexed citations
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Modesto, Sean P., Bruce S. Rubidge, W. J. de Klerk, & Johann Welman. (2001). A dinocephalian therapsid fauna on the Ecca-Beaufort contact in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa : research letter. South African Journal of Science. 97. 161–163. 14 indexed citations
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Modesto, Sean P. & Robert R. Reisz. (1992). Restudy of Permo-Carboniferous synapsid Edaphosaurus novomexicanus Williston and Case, the oldest known herbivorous amniote. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 29(12). 2653–2662. 21 indexed citations

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