Hind limb muscle reconstruction in the incipiently opisthopubic large therizinosaur Nothronychus (Theropoda; Maniraptora)

DK Smith - Journal of Anatomy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Therizinosaurs are highly modified, probably herbivorous, theropods from the Upper
Cretaceous of Asia and North America. They are characterized by an extensively …

Forelimb musculature and function in the therizinosaur Nothronychus (Maniraptora, Theropoda)

DK Smith - Journal of Anatomy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Therizinosaurs are unusual theropods from the Upper Cretaceous of Asia and North
America. North American representatives include Falcarius utahensis from central Utah …

Hindlimb musculature of the lower cretaceous (Barremian) Therizinosaur Falcarius utahensis (Maniraptora, Theropoda) with implications for evolution, stance, and …

DK Smith - Cretaceous Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The hindlimb musculature of the basal therizinosaur Falcarius utahensis is reconstructed
using observable muscle scars, information from extant birds and crocodylians, and current …

Pelvic and hindlimb muscular reconstruction of the paravian theropod Buitreraptor gonzalezorum and its palaeobiological implications

FA Gianechini, L Colli, PJ Makovicky - Historical Biology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Soft tissue reconstructions of fossil vertebrates provide valuable data and support for
functional interpretations. Here, we present the pelvic and hindlimb muscular reconstruction …

The pectoral girdle and forelimb of the primitive therizinosauroid Falcarius Utahensis (Theropoda, Maniraptora): analyzing evolutionary trends within …

LE Zanno - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
The recent discovery of a dense, paucispecific bonebed from the Early Cretaceous Cedar
Mountain Formation, central Utah, has yielded new information on the morphology and …

Complete forelimb myology of the basal theropod dinosaur Tawa hallae based on a novel robust muscle reconstruction method

SH Burch - Journal of Anatomy, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The forelimbs of nonavian theropod dinosaurs have been the subject of considerable study
and speculation due to their varied morphology and role in the evolution of flight. Although …

Craniocervical Myology and Functional Morphology of the Small-Headed Therizinosaurian Theropods Falcarius utahensis and Nothronychus mckinleyi

DK Smith - Plos one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Therizinosaurs represent a highly unusual clade of herbivorous theropods from the
Cretaceous of North America and Asia. Following descriptions of the basicrania of the North …

Reconstruction of soft noncontractile tissue in the derived therizinosaur Nothronychus: The interplay of soft tissue and stress on hindlimb ossification and posture

DK Smith, DD Gillette - Journal of Morphology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nothronychus graffami was a large therizinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of North
America. Much of the skeleton is well‐preserved and relatively undistorted. The synovial …

Pelvic and hindlimb musculature of Tyrannosaurus rex (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

MT Carrano, JR Hutchinson - Journal of Morphology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we develop a new reconstruction of the pelvic and hindlimb muscles of the
large theropod dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex. Our new reconstruction relies primarily on …

Reconstruction of the pelvic girdle and hindlimb musculature of the early tetanurans Piatnitzkysauridae (Theropoda, Megalosauroidea)

MBS Lacerda, JS Bittencourt… - Journal of Anatomy, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Piatnitzkysauridae were Jurassic theropods that represented the earliest diverging branch of
Megalosauroidea, being one of the earliest lineages to have evolved moderate body size …