Sauropod gigantism

PM Sander, M Clauss - Science, 2008 - science.org
Toward understanding sauropod dinosaur gigantism. The sauropod dinosaurs
Brachiosaurus and Argentinosaurus were much larger than the largest bird-hipped …

Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism

PM Sander, A Christian, M Clauss… - Biological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods were the
largest terrestrial animals ever, surpassing the largest herbivorous mammals by an order of …

[图书][B] Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: understanding the life of giants

O Wings, A Borbély, T Breuer, A Christian, M Clauss… - 2011 - books.google.com
Sauropods, those huge plant-eating dinosaurs, possessed bodies that seem to defy every
natural law. What were these creatures like as living animals and how could they reach such …

An evolutionary cascade model for sauropod dinosaur gigantism-overview, update and tests

PM Sander - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Sauropod dinosaurs are a group of herbivorous dinosaurs which exceeded all other
terrestrial vertebrates in mean and maximal body size. Sauropod dinosaurs were also the …

An early trend towards gigantism in Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs

C Apaldetti, RN Martínez, IA Cerda, D Pol… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Dinosaurs dominated the terrestrial ecosystems for more than 140 Myr during the Mesozoic
era, and among them were sauropodomorphs, the largest land animals recorded in the …

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

J Botha, JN Choiniere, RBJ Benson - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Sauropod dinosaurs include the largest land animals to have walked the earth, mostly
weighing 10–70 tons (eg, Sander et al. 1 and Carballido et al. 2). Osteohistology suggests …

Embryonic skulls of titanosaur sauropod dinosaurs

LM Chiappe, L Salgado, RA Coria - Science, 2001 - science.org
Little is known about the cranial anatomy of the taxonomically diverse and geographically
widespread titanosaurs, a paucity that has hindered inferences about the genealogical …

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

H Preuschoft, B Hohn, S Stoinski, U Witzel… - Biology of the …, 2011 - books.google.com
TO UNDERSTAND GIGANTISM, the pros and cons of large size must be clearly recognized.
Although the disadvantages connected with extraordinary size are dealt with in the other …

The complete skull and skeleton of an early dinosaur

PC Sereno, FE Novas - Science, 1992 - science.org
The unearthing of a complete skull and skeleton of the early dinosaur Herrerasaurus
ischigualastensis sheds light on the early evolution of dinosaurs. Discovered in the Upper …

[图书][B] The complete dinosaur

MK Brett-Surman, TR Holtz, JO Farlow - 2012 - books.google.com
A new edition of the illustrated compendium that is “a gift to serious dinosaur
enthusiasts”(Science). What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did …