Sauropods

PM Sander - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
evolution of an island dwarf titanosaur (Magyarosaurus), only the … stringent body mass
estimate for sauropods (and other dinosaurs) … volume, elephants have difficulty shedding the heat …

Body size evolution and locomotion in Sauropodomorpha: what the South American record Tells Us

A Otero, JR Hutchinson - … Dinosaurs: Record, Diversity and Evolution, 2022 - Springer
… years, new light has been shed on this transition through new … understanding of the evolution
of sauropod locomotion, and … The evolutionary dynamics of titanosaur body masses also …

The earliest known titanosaur sauropod dinosaur

PA Gallina, JI Canale, JL Carballido - Ameghiniana, 2021 - BioOne
… The titanosaur sauropod record of Patagonia, mainly … Here we present a new sauropod
dinosaur, Ninjatitan zapatai gen. et sp… A new long-spined dinosaur from Patagonia sheds light on …

Early growth dynamics of titanosaur sauropods inferred from bone histology

R González, IA Cerda, LS Filippi, L Salgado - Palaeogeography …, 2020 - Elsevier
… of sauropod dinosaurs. In addition, we examine indeterminate long bones of titanosaur
embryos … This study reveals that the early growth of at least some titanosaurs departs from the …

Report of a giant titanosaur sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Neuquén Province, Argentina

A Otero, JL Carballido, L Salgado, JI Canudo… - Cretaceous …, 2021 - Elsevier
… in the field of sauropod dinosaurs is the evolution of gigantism. In … titanosaurs, revealing
the existence of a previously unknown lineage and shedding new light on body mass evolution. …

Evolution of hind limb morphology of Titanosauriformes (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) analyzed via 3D Geometric Morphometrics reveals wide-gauge posture as an …

A Paramo Blazquez, P Mocho, F Escaso, F Ortega - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
… their gigantic body massesshed light about this morphological 312 pattern, as the zeugopod
elements of several of these taxa resemble those of other non- 313 colossosaur titanosaurs

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of hind limb morphology of Titanosauriformes (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) analyzed via 3D Geometric Morphometrics reveals wide-gauge posture as …

AP Blazquez, P Mocho, F Escaso, F Ortega - eLife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
… their gigantic body masses and a wide … shed light on this morphological pattern, as the
zeugopod elements of several of these taxa resemble those of other non-colossosaur titanosaurs (…

[HTML][HTML] Rapid growth preceded gigantism in sauropodomorph evolution

J Botha, JN Choiniere, RBJ Benson - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
… rapid growth seen in sauropods, did not evolve specifically to enable giant body sizes but may
… age of the holotype specimen of the diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur Suuwassea emilieae. …

Body mass estimate of Bruhathkayosaurus and other fragmentary sauropod remains suggest the largest land animals were about as big as the greatest whales

GS Paul, A Larramendi - Lethaia, 2023 - idunn.no
body mass was estimated based on the extrapolation of the results obtained from the volumetric
restorations of other giant titanosaurs (… lengths calculated for sauropod dinosaurs by the …

A titanosaurian sauropod with Gondwanan affinities in the latest Cretaceous of Europe

B Vila, A Selles, M Moreno-Azanza… - … Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - nature.com
… Here we present a new titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur … relationships among
European titanosaurs and shed light on … 17.5 m in length with a body mass of 14,053 kg (Supplementary …