Reconstructing the ecological relationships of the latest Cretaceous Antarctic dinosaurs and how functional tooth morphology influenced diet and ecological niche …

I Broxson - 2023 - dc.ewu.edu
Of the final three connected Gondwanan landmasses, the dinosaur fossil record of
Antarctica in the Cretaceous is the least complete. Most dinosaur faunas in this time period …

Exceptionally simple, rapidly replaced teeth in sauropod dinosaurs demonstrate a novel evolutionary strategy for herbivory in Late Jurassic ecosystems

KM Melstrom, LM Chiappe, ND Smith - BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - Springer
Background Dinosaurs dominated terrestrial environments for over 100 million years due in
part to innovative feeding strategies. Although a range of dental adaptations was present in …

[HTML][HTML] Ontogenetic dietary shifts in North American hadrosaurids (Dinosauria: Ornithischia)

T Wyenberg-Henzler, RT Patterson, JC Mallon - Cretaceous Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Ontogenetic niche shifts, the phenomenon whereby animals change their resource use with
growth, were probably widespread in dinosaurs, but most studies of duck-billed dinosaur …

New directions in vertebrate paleontological research in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

ND Smith - Palaios, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The emphasis on record setting during the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration meant that the
scientific accomplishments of these expeditions often went overlooked (Larson, 2012). Many …

Dynamics of dental evolution in ornithopod dinosaurs

E Strickson, A Prieto-Márquez, MJ Benton… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Ornithopods were key herbivorous dinosaurs in Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems, with a
variety of tooth morphologies. Several clades, especially the 'duck-billed'hadrosaurids …

Eocene ungulate mammals from West Antarctica: implications from their fossil record and a new species

JN Gelfo, GM López, SN Santillana - Antarctic Science, 2017 - cambridge.org
Here we describe a new terrestrial mammal from the Eocene of Seymour Island (Isla
Marambio) represented by a lower left third molar and assigned to a new species of …

Trophic evolution in ornithopod dinosaurs revealed by dental wear

A Ősi, PM Barrett, AL Nagy, I Szenti… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Ornithopod dinosaurs evolved numerous craniodental innovations related to herbivory.
Nonetheless, the relationship between occlusion, tooth wear rate, and tooth replacement …

[PDF][PDF] Late Cretaceous non-avian dinosaurs from the James Ross Basin, Antarctica: description of new material, updated synthesis, biostratigraphy, and …

MC Lamanna, JA Case, EM Roberts… - Advances in Polar …, 2019 - academia.edu
Although the fossil record of non-avian dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Antarctica is the
poorest of any continent, fossils representing at least five major taxonomic groups …

The functional and palaeoecological implications of tooth morphology and wear for the megaherbivorous dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Upper …

JC Mallon, JS Anderson - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Megaherbivorous dinosaurs were exceptionally diverse on the Late Cretaceous island
continent of Laramidia, and a growing body of evidence suggests that this diversity was …

[PDF][PDF] Hadrosaurs as ungulate parallels: lost life styles and deficient data

MT Carrano, CM Janis - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 1999 - bibliotekanauki.pl
Hadrosaur dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) were abundant in Late Cretaceous
terrestrial environments of North America and Asia. Their derived dental and postcranial …