Giant horned dinosaurs did have fully erect forelimbs

GS Paul - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1991 - gspauldino.com
Johnson (1990) presented a new mount of Torosaurus with semierect forelimbs. This is not
in accord with the best available evidence. A Maastrichtian trackway assignable to …

Forelimb posture in neoceratopsian dinosaurs: implications for gait and locomotion

GS Paul, P Christiansen - Paleobiology, 2000 - cambridge.org
Ceratopsid dinosaurs traditionally have been restored with sprawling forelimbs and were
considered unable to run at high speeds. An alternative view restores the ceratopsids as …

Locomotion in non-avian dinosaurs: integrating data from hindlimb kinematics, in vivo strains, and bone morphology

MT Carrano - Paleobiology, 1998 - cambridge.org
Analyses of non-avian dinosaur locomotion have been hampered by the lack of an
appropriate locomotor analog among extant taxa. Birds, though members of the clade …

[PDF][PDF] On the Origin of dinosaurs and mammals

WC Erickson - USA (Self published manuscript supplied by author), 2001 - dogjudging.com
The coincidence in time of incipient rifting of Pangea and the origin of dinosaurs during the
Carnian age (230-225 Ma) of the Late Triassic suggests a fundamental link between the two …

Plateosaurus foot structure suggests a single trackmaker for Eubrontes and Gigandipus footprints

RE Weems - The great rift valleys of Pangea in eastern North …, 2003 - books.google.com
T he reconstructed foot of Plateosaurus, a Late Triassic prosauropod dinosaur, provides new
insights into its morphology and function. Pes digit I is notably shorter than digits II through IV …

On the heterocelous vertebrae in horned dinosaurs (Protoceratopidae, Neoceratopsia)

VS Tereschenko - 2004 - repository.geologyscience.ru
Four or five anterior caudal vertebrae of archaic horned dinosaurs (Protoceratopidae) have
the heterocelous centrum. The cranial and caudal articular surfaces of these centra are …

A new species of Camptosaurus (Ornithopoda: Dinosauria) from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, and a biomechanical …

K Carpenter, Y Wilson - Annals of Carnegie Museum, 2008 - BioOne
ABSTRACT A new species, Camptosaurus aphanoecetes, is named for a partial skeleton of
ornithopod dinosaur from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Dinosaur National …

Limb-bone scaling indicates diverse stance and gait in quadrupedal ornithischian dinosaurs

SCR Maidment, DH Linton, P Upchurch, PM Barrett - PLOS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background The most primitive ornithischian dinosaurs were small bipeds, but
quadrupedality evolved three times independently in the clade. The transition to …

The posture of hadrosaurian dinosaurs

PM Galton - Journal of Paleontology, 1970 - JSTOR
Comparisons of hadrosaurs with undoubtedly quadrupedal dinosaurs and graviportal
mammals show that hadrosaurs were bipedal. Arguments used to show that hadrosaurs …

Fused Camarasaurus cervicals preserve an erect, not horizontal, neck

G Paul - J Vert Paleont, 2006 - gspauldino.com
PAUL, Gregory, Baltimore, MD Computer simulated posture of sauropod necks including
camarasaurs is consistently horizontal. The minimal spacing between centra in these …