The origin and early evolution of dinosaurs

MC Langer, MD Ezcurra, JS Bittencourt… - Biological …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The oldest unequivocal records of Dinosauria were unearthed from Late Triassic rocks
(approximately 230 Ma) accumulated over extensional rift basins in southwestern Pangea …

Evolution of the carnivorous dinosaurs during the Cretaceous: the evidence from Patagonia

FE Novas, FL Agnolín, MD Ezcurra, J Porfiri… - Cretaceous …, 2013 - Elsevier
Patagonia has yielded the most comprehensive fossil record of Cretaceous theropods from
Gondwana, consisting of 31 nominal species belonging to singleton taxa and six families …

[HTML][HTML] The phylogenetic relationships of basal archosauromorphs, with an emphasis on the systematics of proterosuchian archosauriforms

MD Ezcurra - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
The early evolution of archosauromorphs during the Permo-Triassic constitutes an excellent
empirical case study to shed light on evolutionary radiations in deep time and the timing and …

The phylogeny of tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

MT Carrano, RBJ Benson… - Journal of Systematic …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Tetanuran theropods represent the majority of Mesozoic predatory dinosaur diversity and
the lineage leading to extant Aves. Thus their history is relevant to understanding the …

A nomenclature for vertebral fossae in sauropods and other saurischian dinosaurs

JA Wilson, MD D'Emic, T Ikejiri, EM Moacdieh… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background The axial skeleton of extinct saurischian dinosaurs (ie, theropods,
sauropodomorphs), like living birds, was pneumatized by epithelial outpocketings of the …

Estratigrafía del Grupo Neuquén, Cretácico Superior de la Cuenca Neuquina (Argentina): nueva propuesta de ordenamiento litoestratigráfico

AC Garrido - Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, 2010 - SciELO Argentina
El Grupo Neuquén conforma una sucesión de depósitos continentales de origen fluvial,
eólico y lacustre somero, desarrollado en la Cuenca Neuquina entre el Cenomaniano …

Cretaceous terrestrial beds from the Neuquén Basin (Argentina) and their tetrapod assemblages

HA Leanza, S Apesteguıa, FE Novas… - Cretaceous …, 2004 - Elsevier
The Cretaceous terrestrial strata of the Neuquén Basin (northern Patagonia, Argentina) are
described together with their tetrapod records. Six local tetrapod assemblages are identified …

The phylogeny of ceratosauria (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

MT Carrano, SD Sampson - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Recent discoveries and analyses have drawn increased attention to Ceratosauria, a
taxonomically and morphologically diverse group of basal theropods. By the time of its first …

The osteology of Masiakasaurus knopfleri, a small abelisauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar

MT Carrano, SD Sampson… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
We describe the osteology of the new small theropod dinosaur Masiakasaurus knopfleri,
from the Late Cretaceous Maevarano Formation of northwestern Madagascar …

[PDF][PDF] A new carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina

RA Coria, PJ Currie - Geodiversitas, 2006 - app.ingemmet.gob.pe
ABSTRACT A new carcharodontosaurid theropod from the Huincul Formation (Aptian-
Cenomanian, Upper Cretaceous) of Neuquén Province, Argentina, is described …