Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism

PM Sander, A Christian, M Clauss… - Biological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… We review the biology of sauropod dinosaurs in detail and posit that sauropod gigantism …
sauropod dinosaurs and to discuss and explore hypotheses explaining their unique body size

Sauropod dinosaurs evolved moderately sized genomes unrelated to body size

CL Organ, SL Brusatte, K Stein - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… in genome size separates the two major clades within dinosaurs, … body size and estimated
genome size in extinct dinosaurs, … did not dominate the evolution of genome size in this group. …

[HTML][HTML] Body size distribution of the dinosaurs

EJ O'Gorman, DWE Hone - PLoS One, 2012 - journals.plos.org
… distribution of maximum species body size for dinosaurs to an extensive … body size distribution
of dinosaurs by various sub-groups, time periods and formations. We find that dinosaurs

Cope's rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution

RBJ Benson, G Hunt, MT Carrano… - Palaeontology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… disparity failed to accrue though the entire evolutionary history of sauropods, and
sauropod body size disparity was remarkably consistent throughout this time (Fig. 13A) …

Modeling growth rates for sauropod dinosaurs

TM Lehman, HN Woodward - Paleobiology, 2008 - cambridge.org
… The regression lines are extended (right) beyond the domain of the data on which they are
based to the range of estimated body masses for sauropod dinosaurs. Dinosaurian maximum …

On the head size of sauropodomorph dinosaurs: implications for ecology and physiology

P Christiansen - Historical Biology, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
… The heads of prosauropod and sauropod dinosaurs appear to be small, compared with …
Thus, the heads of prosauropods and sauropods did not have to be as long, at any given body

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive radiation in sauropod dinosaurs: bone histology indicates rapid evolution of giant body size through acceleration

PM Sander, N Klein, E Buffetaut, G Cuny… - Organisms Diversity & …, 2004 - Elsevier
… The well-preserved histology of the geologically oldest sauropod dinosaur from the Late …
of the gigantic body size of the sauropod dinosaurs. The oldest sauropods were already very …

Why so huge? Biomechanical reasons for the acquisition of large size in sauropod and theropod dinosaurs

H Preuschoft, B Hohn, S Stoinski, U Witzel… - … Sauropod Dinosaurs …, 2011 - books.google.com
… of sauropod mechanics even though the last sauropod lived … dinosaurs as during the
later evolutionary body size increase of mammals, and our conclusions concerning sauropods

Body size evolution in Titanosauriformes (Sauropoda, Macronaria)

LM de Souza, RM Santucci - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… diverse group of sauropod dinosaurs that inhabited almost … sauropods known to date,
Europasaurus and Magyarosaurus. They are therefore good candidates for studies on body size

Rise of dinosaurs reveals major body-size transitions are driven by passive processes of trait evolution

RB Sookias, RJ Butler… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… (sauropod dinosaurs) and the largest flying organisms (azhdarchid pterosaurs) ever to exist,
and dinosaurs … between carnivore and herbivore body size within the time interval, and …