Review of the fossil record of early dinosaurs from South America, and its phylogenetic implications

FE Novas, FL Agnolin, MD Ezcurra, RT Müller… - Journal of South …, 2021 - Elsevier
Triassic beds from Argentina and Brazil provide the most relevant fossil record of early
dinosauriforms in terms of numerical abundance and taxonomic diversity. This record …

Taxonomic, palaeobiological and evolutionary implications of a phylogenetic hypothesis for Ornithischia (Archosauria: Dinosauria)

DB Norman, MG Baron, MS Garcia… - Zoological Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The origin and evolutionary relationships of ornithischian dinosaurs are topics that have
undergone a series of substantial revisions. At present there are several competing …

[HTML][HTML] A giant dinosaur from the earliest Jurassic of South Africa and the transition to quadrupedality in early sauropodomorphs

BW McPhee, RBJ Benson, J Botha-Brink, EM Bordy… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Sauropod dinosaurs were dominant, bulk-browsing herbivores for 130 million years of the
Mesozoic, attaining gigantic body masses in excess of 60 metric tons [1, 2]. A columnar …

Repeated evolution of divergent modes of herbivory in non-avian dinosaurs

DJ Button, LE Zanno - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Summary The importance of adaptation [1–4] versus organizational constraints [5–7] in
shaping common macroevolutionary trends remains unclear [8]. The fossil record is key to …

[HTML][HTML] Gnathovorax cabreirai: a new early dinosaur and the origin and initial radiation of predatory dinosaurs

C Pacheco, RT Müller, M Langer, FA Pretto, L Kerber… - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Predatory dinosaurs were an important ecological component of terrestrial Mesozoic
ecosystems. Though theropod dinosaurs carried this role during the Jurassic and …

The Anatomy of Asilisaurus kongwe, a Dinosauriform from the Lifua Member of the Manda Beds (~Middle Triassic) of Africa

SJ Nesbitt, MC Langer, MD Ezcurra - The Anatomical Record, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The diagnosis of Dinosauria and interrelationships of the earliest dinosaurs relies on careful
documentation of the anatomy of their closest relatives. These close relatives, or dinosaur …

A saurischian (Archosauria, Dinosauria) ilium from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil and the rise of Herrerasauria

MS Garcia, SF Cabreira, LR da Silva… - The Anatomical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Carnian (Upper Triassic) rocks of the Candelária Sequence present a rich
record of dinosaurs, including some of the oldest known dinosaurs worldwide. In this …

Locomotion and the early Mesozoic success of Archosauromorpha

AE Shipley, A Elsler, SA Singh… - Royal Society …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Triassic was a time of ecological upheaval as life recovered from the Permian-Triassic
mass extinction. Archosauromorphs were a key component of the recovery, diversifying …

Untangling the tree or unravelling the consensus? Recent developments in the quest to resolve the broad-scale relationships within Dinosauria

J Lovegrove, P Upchurch, PM Barrett - Journal of Systematic …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The phylogenetic relationships of the major lineages within Dinosauria have come under
intense scrutiny in recent years. In 2017, a radical new hypothesis of early dinosaur …

The effect of character and outgroup choice on the phylogenetic position of the Jurassic dinosaur Chilesaurus diegosaurezi

MG Baron - Palaeoworld, 2022 - Elsevier
The systematic position of the unusual Late Jurassic dinosaur Chilesaurus diegosaurezi
remains an area of real uncertainty. Originally thought to be an unusual theropod …