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Hans Sues
Chair of Paleobiology, Senior Research Geologist and Curator of Vertebrate PaleontologyDepartment / Division
Education
- M.Sc., University of Alberta
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests
Phylogeny and evolutionary morphology of late Paleozoic and Mesozoic non-mammalian synapsids and reptiles (especially non-avian archosaurs); patterns and causes of early Mesozoic biotic changes.
Publications
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- Kligman, Ben T., Marsh, Adam D., Sues, Hans-Dieter, and Sidor, Christian A. 2020. "A new non-mammalian eucynodont from the Chinle Formation (Triassic: Norian), and implications for the early Mesozoic equatorial cynodont record." Biology Letters 16 (11):https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0631
- Kuzmin, Ivan, Petrov, Ivan, Averianov, Alexander, Boitsova, Elizaveta, Skutschas, Pavel, and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2020. "The braincase of Bissektipelta archibaldi - new insights into endocranial osteology, vasculature, and paleoneurobiology of ankylosaurian dinosaurs." Biological Communications 65 (2):https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu03.2020.201
- Scheyer, Torsten M., Spiekman, Stephan N. F., Sues, Hans-Dieter, Ezcurra, Martín D., Butler, Richard J., and Jones, Marc E. H. 2020. "Colobops : a juvenile rhynchocephalian reptile (Lepidosauromorpha), not a diminutive archosauromorph with an unusually strong bite." Royal Society Open Science 7 (3):Article 192179. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.192179
- Schoch, Rainer R. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2020. "The origin of the turtle body plan: evidence from fossils and embryos." Palaeontology 63 (3):375–393. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12460
- Sues, Hans-Dieter, Fitch, Adam J., and Whatley, Robin L. 2020. "A New Rhynchosaur (Reptilia, Archosauromorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Eastern North America." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Article e1771568. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2020.1771568
- Sues, Hans-Dieter, Schoch, Rainer R., Sobral, Gabriela, and Irmis, Randall B. 2020. "A new archosauriform reptile with distinctive teeth from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Germany." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Article e1764968. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2020.1764968
- Averianov, Alexander and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2019. "Morphometric analysis of the teeth and taxonomy of the enigmatic theropod Richardoestesia from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39 (3):Article e1614941. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2019.1614941
- Kuzmin, Ivan T., Skutschas, Pavel P., Boitsova, Elizaveta A., and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2019. "Revision of the large crocodyliform Kansajsuchus (Neosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Central Asia." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185 (2):335–387. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zly027
- Pritchard, Adam C. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2019. "Postcranial remains of Teraterpeton hrynewichorum (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) and the mosaic evolution of the saurian postcranial skeleton." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17 (20):1745–1765. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1551249
- Schoch, Rainer R., Klein, Nicole, Scheyer, Torsten M., and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2019. "Microanatomy of the stem-turtle Pappochelys rosinae indicates a predominantly fossorial mode of life and clarifies early steps in the evolution of the shell." Scientific Reports 9 (1):https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46762-z
- Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2019. "Authorship and date of publication of the name Tetrapoda." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39 (1):https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2019.1564758
- Witzmann, Florian, Sues, Hans-Dieter, Kammerer, Christian F., and Froebisch, Joerg. 2019. "A new bystrowianid from the late Permian of Germany: First record of a Permian chroniosuchian (Tetrapoda) outside Russia and China." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39 (4):Article e1667366. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2019.1667366
- Schoch, Rainer R. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2018. "A new lepidosauromorph reptile from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Germany and its phylogenetic relationships." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38 (2):e1444619–e1444619. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2018.1444619
- Schoch, Rainer R. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2018. "Osteology of the Middle Triassic stem-turtle Pappochelys rosinae and the early evolution of the turtle skeleton." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16 (11):927–965. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2017.1354936
- Schoch, Rainer R., Ullmann, Frank, Rozynek, Brigitte, Ziegler, Reinhard, Seegis, Dieter, and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2018. "Tetrapod diversity and palaeoecology in the German Middle Triassic (Lower Keuper) documented by tooth morphotypes." Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 98 (4):615–638. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-018-0327-2
- Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2018. "Palaeontology: Many Babies or Bigger Brains?." Current Biology 28 (21):1254–1256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.041
- Averianov, Alexander O., Sues, Hans-Dieter, Dyke, Gareth, and Bayshashov, Bolat. 2017. "Hind limb bones of an ornithomimid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Bostobe Formation, northeastern Aral Sea region, Kazakhstan." Palaeoworld 26 (1):194–201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2016.01.003
- Averianov, Alexander and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2017. "The oldest record of Alvarezsauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) in the Northern Hemisphere." PLOS ONE 12 (10):https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186254
- Averianov, Alexander and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2017. "Sauropod teeth from the Upper Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan." Historical Biology 29 (5):641–653. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2016.1229777
- Averianov, Alexander and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2017. "Review of Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs from Central Asia." Cretaceous Research 69:184–197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2016.09.006
- Scheyer, Torsten M. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2017. "Expanded dorsal ribs in the Late Triassic pseudosuchian reptile Euscolosuchus olseni." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37 (1):https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2017.1248768
- Skutschas, Pavel P., Boitsova, Elizaveta A., Averianov, Alexander O., and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2017. "Ontogenetic changes in long-bone histology of an ornithomimid theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan." Historical Biology 29 (6):715–729. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2016.1233180
- Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2017. "Arctosaurus osborni, a Late Triassic archosauromorph reptile from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 54 (2):129–133. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2016-0159
- Arbour, Victoria M., Zanno, Lindsay E., Larson, Derek W., Evans, David C., and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2016. "The furculae of the dromaeosaurid dinosaur Dakotaraptor steini are trionychid turtle entoplastra." PeerJ 4:e1691. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1691
- Averianov, Alexander, Danilov, Igor, Skutschas, Pavel, Kuzmin, Ivan, Sues, Hans-Dieter, and Dyke, Gareth. 2016. "The Late Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages of western Kazakhstan." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 71:5–17.
- Averianov, Alexander and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2016. "Troodontidae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan." Cretaceous Research 59:98–110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2015.11.005
- Brusatte, Stephen L., Averianov, Alexander, Sues, Hans-Dieter, Muir, Amy, and Butler, Ian B. 2016. "New tyrannosaur from the mid-Cretaceous of Uzbekistan clarifies evolution of giant body sizes and advanced senses in tyrant dinosaurs." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (13):3447–3452. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1600140113
- Schoch, Rainer R. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2016. "The diapsid origin of turtles." Zoology 119 (3):159–161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2016.01.004
- Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2016. "Dating the origin of dinosaurs." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (3):480–481. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1523058113
- Sues, Hans-Dieter and Averianov, Alexander. 2016. "Ornithomimidae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Bissekty Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Turonian) of Uzbekistan." Cretaceous Research 57:90–110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2015.07.012
- Sues, Hans-Dieter and Averianov, Alexander. 2016. "Therizinosauroidea (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan." Cretaceous Research 59:155–178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2015.11.003
- Modesto, Sean P., Scott, Diane M., MacDougall, Mark J., Sues, Hans-Dieter, Evans, David C., and Reisz, Robert R. 2015. "The oldest parareptile and the early diversification of reptiles." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1801):https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1912
- Reisz, Robert R. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2015. "The challenges and opportunities for research in paleontology for the next decade." Frontiers in Earth Science 3:9. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2015.00009
- Schoch, Rainer and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2015. "A Middle Triassic stem-turtle and the evolution of the turtle body plan." Nature 523 (7562):584–587. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14472
- Sobral, Gabriela, Sues, Hans-Dieter, and Müller, Johannes. 2015. "Anatomy of the Enigmatic Reptile Elachistosuchus huenei Janensch, 1949 (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Upper Triassic of Germany and Its Relevance for the Origin of Sauria." PloS One 10 (9):https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135114
- Sues, Hans-Dieter and Averianov, Alexander. 2015. "New material of Caenagnathasia martinsoni (Dinosauria: Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the Bissekty Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Turonian) of Uzbekistan." Cretaceous Research 54:50–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2014.12.001
- Sues, Hans-Dieter, Averianov, Alexander, Ridgely, Ryan C., and Witmer, Lawrence M. 2015. "Titanosauria (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 (1):https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2014.889145
- Sues, Hans-Dieter and Olsen, Paul E. 2015. "Stratigraphic and temporal context and faunal diversity of Permian-Jurassic continental tetrapod assemblages from the Fundy rift basin, eastern Canada." Atlantic Geology 51:139–205. https://doi.org/10.4138/atlgeol.2015.006
- Lamanna, Matthew C., Sues, Hans-Dieter, Schachner, Emma R., and Lyson, Tyler R. 2014. "A New Large-Bodied Oviraptorosaurian Theropod Dinosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of Western North America." PLoS ONE 9 (3):1–16. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0092022
- Schoch, Rainer R. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2014. "A new archosauriform reptile from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Germany." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 12 (1):113–131. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2013.781066
- Sues, Hans-Dieter and Averianov, Alexander. 2014. "Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Bissekty Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Turonian) of Uzbekistan and the phylogenetic position of Itemirus medullaris Kurzanov, 1976." Cretaceous Research 51:225–240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2014.06.007
- Irmis, Randall B., Nesbitt, Sterling J., and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2013. "Early Crocodylomorpha." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 379:275–302. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP379.24
- Laurin, Michel and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2013. "Robert R. Reisz – Renaissance paleontologist." Comptes Rendus Palevol 12 (7-8):393–404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2012.09.001
- Laurin, Michel, Sues, Hans-Dieter, Modesto, Sean P., and Evans, David C. 2013. "A tribute to Robert R. Reisz." Comptes Rendus Palevol 12 (7-8):389–392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2013.09.002
- Schoch, Rainer R. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2013. "A new dissorophid temnospondyl from the Lower Permian of north-central Texas." Comptes Rendus Palevol 12 (7-8):437–445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2013.04.002
- Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2013. "Comment on Case 3560: Plateosaurus engelhardti Meyer, 1837 (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha): proposed replacement of unidentifiable name-bearing type by a neotype (Case 3560)." The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 70:120–121.
- Sues, Hans-Dieter and Averianov, Alexander. 2013. "Enigmatic teeth of small theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) of Uzbekistan." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 50 (3):306–314. https://doi.org/10.1139/e2012-033
- Sues, Hans-Dieter, Desojo, Julia, and Ezcurra, Martin. 2013. "Doswelliidae: a clade of unusual armoured archosauriforms from the Middle and Late Triassic." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 379:49–58. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP379.13
- Sues, Hans-Dieter, Hook, Robert W., and Olsen, Paul E. 2013. "Donald Baird and his discoveries of Carboniferous and early Mesozoic vertebrates in Nova Scotia." Atlantic Geology 49:90–103. https://doi.org/10.4138/atlgeol.2013.004
- Sues, Hans-Dieter and Schoch, Rainer R. 2013. "First record of Colognathus (?Amniota) from the Middle Triassic of Europe." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 (4):998–1002. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.732977
- Sues, Hans-Dieter and Schoch, Rainer R. 2013. "Reassessment of cf. Halticosaurus orbitoangulatus from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of Germany - a pseudosuchian, not a dinosaur." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168 (4):859–872. https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12038
- Sues, Hans-Dieter and Schoch, Rainer R. 2013. "Anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Calamops paludosus (Temnospondyli, Stereospondyli) from the Triassic of the Newark basin, Pennsylvania." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 (5):1061–1070. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.759120
- Averianov, A. O., Sues, Hans-Dieter, and Tleuberdina, P. A. 2012. "The forgotten dinosaurs of ZHetysu (eastern Kazakhstan; Late Cretaceous)." Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 316 (2):139–147.
- Averianov, A. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2012. "Correlation of Late Cretaceous continental vertebrate assemblages in Middle and Central Asia." Journal of Stratigraphy 36 (2):462–485.
- Averianov, Alexander and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2012. "Skeletal remains of Tyrannosauroidea (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Bissekty Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Turonian) of Uzbekistan." Cretaceous Research 34:284–297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2011.11.009
- Reisz, Robert R., Evans, David C., Roberts, Eric M., Sues, Hans-Dieter, and Yates, Adam M. 2012. "Oldest known dinosaurian nesting site and reproductive biology of the Early Jurassic sauropodomorph Massospondylus." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (7):2428–2433. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1109385109
- Rowe, Timothy,B., Sues, Hans-Dieter, and Reisz, Robert R. 2011. "Dispersal and diversity in the earliest North American sauropodomorph dinosaurs, with a description of a new taxon." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1708):1044–1053. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1867
- Sues, Hans-Dieter, Nesbitt, Sterling J., Berman, David S., and Henrici, Amy C. 2011. "A late-surviving basal theropod dinosaur from the latest Triassic of North America." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1723):3459–3464. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0410
- Archibald, J. David, Clemens, W. A., Padian, Kevin, Rowe, Timothy, Macleod, Norman, Barrett, Paul M., Gale, Andrew, Holroyd, Pat, Sues, Hans-Dieter, Arens, Nan Crystal, Horner, John R., Wilson, Gregory P., Goodwin, Mark B., Brochu, Christopher A., Lofgren, Donald L., Hurlbert, Stuart H., Hartman, Joseph H., Eberth, David A., Wignall, Paul B., Currie, Philip J., Weil, Anne, Prasad, Guntupalli V. R., Dingus, Lowell, Courtillot, Vincent, Milner, Angela et al. 2010. "Cretaceous Extinctions: Multiple Causes." Science 328 (5981):973–973. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.328.5981.973-a
- Liu, J. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2010. "Dentition and tooth replacement of Boreogomphodon (Cynodontia: Traversodontidae) from the Upper Triassic of North Carolina, USA." Vertebrata PalAsiatica 48 (3):169–184.
- Mitchell, J., Heckert, Andrew B., and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2010. "Grooves to tubes: evolution of the venom-delivery system in a Late Triassic reptile." Naturwissenschaften 97 (12):1117–1121. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-010-0729-0
- Reisz, Robert R., Evans, David C., Sues, Hans-Dieter, and Scott, Diane. 2010. "Embryonic skeletal anatomy of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Massospondylus from the Lower Jurassic of South Africa." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (6):1653–1665. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2010.521604
- Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2010. "An unusual dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania and the island rule." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107 (35):15310–15311. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1010366107
- Sues, Hans-Dieter and Hopson, James A. 2010. "Anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Boreogomphodon jeffersoni (Cynodontia: Gomphodontia) from the Upper Triassic of Virginia." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (4):1202–1220. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2010.483545
- Averianov, Alexander and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2009. "First Record of a Basal Neoceratopsian Dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Kazakhstan." Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54 (3):553–556. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.2008.0079
- Bennington, J. Bret, DiMichele, William A., Badgley, Catherine, Bambach, Richard K., Barrett, Paul M., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bobe, Rene, Burnham, Robyn J., Daeschler, Edward B., Van Dam, Jan, Eronen, Jussi T., Erwin, Douglas H., Finnegan, Seth, Holland, Steven M., Hunt, Gene, Jablonski, David, Jackson, Stephen T., Jacobs, Bonnie E., Kidwell, Susan M., Koch, Paul L., Kowalewski, Michal J., Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., Lyons, Sara K., Novack-Gottshall, Philip M. et al. 2009. "Critical Issues of Scale in Paleoecology." Palaios 24 (1-2):1–4. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2009.S01
- Dilkes, D. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2009. "Redescription and phylogenetic relationships of Doswellia kaltenbachi (Diapsida: Archosauriformes) from the Upper Triassic of Virginia." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 (1):58–79. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2009.10010362
- Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2009. [Book review] "The Rise of Amphibians: 365 Million Years of Evolution. Robert Carroll." Integrative and Comparative Biology. 49 (6):725–726. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icp097
- Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2009. [Book review] "Archaeopteryx. Der Urvogel von Solnhofen, by Peter Wellnhofer." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (1):310–311. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2009.10010387
- Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2009. [Book review] "Of Old Bones and Young America." BioScience. 59 (2):182–183. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2009.59.2.11
- Sues, Hans-Dieter and Averianov, Alexander. 2009. "Turanoceratops tardabilis-the first ceratopsid dinosaur from Asia." Naturwissenschaften 96 (5):645–652. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-009-0518-9
- Sues, Hans-Dieter and Averianov, Alexander. 2009. "A new basal hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan and the early radiation of duck-billed dinosaurs." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1667):2549–2555. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.0229
- Sues, Hans-Dieter and Averianov, Alexander. 2009. "Phylogenetic position of Turanoceratops (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia)." Naturwissenschaften 96 (7):871–872. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-009-0552-7
- Penev, L., Erwin, Terry L., Thompson, F. Christian, Sues, Hans-Dieter, Engel, M., Agosti, Donat, Pyle, R., Ivie, M., Assmann, T., Henry, Thomas J., and Miller, J. 2008. "ZooKeys, unlocking Earth’s incredible biodiversity and building a sustainable bridge into the public domain: From “print-based” to “web-based” taxonomy, systematics, and natural history." ZooKeys 1:1–6.
- Penev, Lyubomir, Erwin, Terry L., Thompson, F. Christian, Sues, Hans-Dieter, Engel, Michael S., Agosti, Donat, Pyle, Richard, Ivie, Michael, Assmann, Thorsten, Henry, Thomas J., Miller, Jeremy, Ananjeva, Natalia B., Casale, Achille, Lourenco, Wilson, Golovatch, Sergei, Fagerholm, Hans-Peter, Taiti, Stefano, Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel, and van Nieukerken, Erik. 2008. "ZooKeys, unlocking Earth's incredible biodiversity and building a sustainable bridge into the public domain: From "print-based" to "web-based" taxonomy, systematics, and natural history ZooKeys Editorial Opening Paper." Zookeys (1): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1.11
- Peyer, K., Carter, J. G., Sues, Hans-Dieter, Novak, S. E., and Olsen, P. E. 2008. "A new suchian archosaur from the Upper Triassic of North Carolina." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28:363–381.
- Sues, Hans-Dieter and Reisz, Robert R. 2008. "Anatomy and Phylogenetic Relationships of Sclerosaurus armatus (Amniota: Parareptilia) from the Buntsandstein (Triassic) of Europe." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (4):1031–1042. https://doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634-28.4.1031
- Averianov, A. O. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2007. "A new troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Cenomanian of Uzbekistan, with a review of troodontid records from the territories of the former Soviet Union." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 (1):87–98. https://doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[87:ANTDTF]2.0.CO
- Larsson, H. C. E. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2007. "Cranial osteology and phylogenetic relationships of Hamadasuchus rebouli (Crocodyliformes: Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Cretaceous of Morocco." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149:533–567.
- Bonaparte, J. F. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2006. "A new species of Clevosaurus (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia) from the Upper Triassic of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil." Palaeontology 49 (4):917–923. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00568.x
- Hopson, J. A. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2006. "A traversodont cynodont from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany." Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 80 (1):124–129. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02988972
- Chaney, Dan S., Sues, Hans-Dieter, and DiMichele, William A. 2005. "A juvenile skeleton of the nectridean amphibian Diplocaulus and associated flora and fauna from the Mitchell Creek Flats locality (upper Waggoner Ranch Formation; Early Permian), Baylor County, north-central Texas, USA." The Nonmarine Permian.New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 30:39–47.
- Goehlich, U. B., Chiappe, L. M., Clark, James M., and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2005. "The systematic position of the Late Jurassic alleged dinosaur Macelognathus (Crocodylomorpha: Sphenosuchia)." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42 (3):307–321.
- Piperno, Dolores R. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2005. "Dinosaurs Dined on Grass." Science 310 (5751):1126–1128.
- Reisz, R. R., Scott, D., Sues, Hans-Dieter, Evans, D. C., and Raath, M. A. 2005. "Embryos of an Early Jurassic prosauropod dinosaur and their evolutionary significance." Science 309 (5735):761–764.
- Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2005. [Book review] "Mammals from the Age of the Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure." Science. 307:1878–1879.
- Modesto, S. P. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2004. "The skull of the Early Triassic archosauromorph reptile Prolacerta broomi and its phylogenetic significance." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 140:335–351.
- Sues, Hans-Dieter, Reisz, R. R., Hinic, S., and Raath, M. A. 2004. "On the skull of Massospondylus carinatus Owen, 1854 (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Elliot and Clarens formations (Lower Jurassic) of South Africa." Annals of Carnegie Museum 73 (4):239–257.
- DiMichele, William A., Burnham, Robyn, and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 1988. [Book review] "Origins of Angiosperms and Their Biological Consequences." Palaios. 4:449–452.
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- Labandeira, Conrad C. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2019. "Species Interaction.." in Foundations of Paleoecology: Classic Papers with Commentaries, edited by Lyons, S. Kathleen, Behrensmeyer, Anna K., and Wagner, Peter J., 497–500. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
- Ungar, Peter S. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2019. "Tetrapod Teeth: Diversity, Evolution, and Function." in Feeding in Vertebrates: Evolution, Morphology, Behavior, Biomechanics, edited by Bels, Vincent and Whishaw, Ian Q., 385–429. Fascinating Life Sciences. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
- Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2016. "Amniotes, diversification of." in Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, edited by Kliman, Richard., 56–62. Oxford: Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800049-6.00279-1
- Padian, Kevin and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2015. "The age of transformation: the Triassic Period and the rise of today's land vertebrate fauna." in Great Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution, edited by Dial, K. P., Shubin, N., and Brainerd, E. L., 349–372. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2012. "European dinosaur hunters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." in The Complete Dinosaur, edited by Farlow, J. O., Brett-Surman, Michael K., and Holtz, Thomas R., Jr., 2nd ed. 45–59. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2012. "Early Mesozoic tetrapods and faunal changes." in The Complete Dinosaur, edited by Farlow, J. O., Brett-Surman, Michael K., and Holtz, Thomas R., Jr., 2nd ed. 988–1002. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Fraser, N. C. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2011. "The beginning of the "Age of Dinosaurs': a brief overview of terrestrial biotic changes during the Triassic." in Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. 101, edited by Butler, R. J., Irmis, R. B., and Langer, M. C., 1–12. Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh.
- Sues, Hans-Dieter and Jenkins, F. A. 2006. "The postcranial skeleton of Kayentatherium wellesi from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona and the phylogenetic significance of postcranial features in tritylodontid cynodonts." in Amniote Paleobiology: Perspectivers on the Evolution of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles, edited by Carrano, Matthew T., Gaudin, T. J., Blob, R. W., and Wible, J. R., 114–152. The University of Chicago Press.
- Averianov, A. O. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2004. "Theropod dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous of Middle Asia." in Problems of Paleontology of Central Asia - 35th Anniversary of the Joint Russian-Mongolian Expedition, edited by Manakov, I. N., Bol'shakova, L. N., and Sytchevskaya, E. K., 7–8. Russian Academy of Sciences.
- Norman, D. B., Sues, Hans-Dieter, Witmer, L. M., and Coria, R. A. 2004. "Basal Ornithopoda." in The Dinosauria. Second Edition, edited by Weishampel, D. B., Dodson, P., and Osmolska, H., 393–412. University of California Press.
- Wing, Scott L. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 1992. "Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems." in Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time : Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals, edited by Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Damuth, John D., DiMichele, William A., Potts, Richard, Sues, Hans-Dieter, and Wing, Scott L., 327–416. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Wing, Scott L., Sues, Hans-Dieter, Potts, Richard, DiMichele, William A., and Behrensmeyer, Anna K. 1992. "Evolutionary Paleoecology." in Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals, edited by Behrensmeyer, Anna K., 1–13. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Book
- Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2019. Rise of Reptiles: 320 million years of evolution. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Fraser, N. C. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. , eds. 2017. Terrestrial Conservation Lagerstätten: Windows into the Evolution of Life on Land. Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press.
- Fraser, Nicholas C. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. , eds. 2013. Terrestrial conservation Lagerstätten: windows into the evolution of life on land. Dunedin.
- Sues, Hans-Dieter and Fraser, Nicholas C. 2010. Triassic Life on Land: The Great Transition. Columbia University Press.
- Anderson, J. S. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2007. Major transitions in Vertebrate Evolution. Indiana University Press.
- Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Damuth, J., DiMichele, William A., Potts, Richard, Sues, Hans-Dieter, and Wing, Scott L. , eds. 1992. Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time. Chicago: University of Chicago.