An evolutionary cascade model for sauropod dinosaur gigantism-overview, update and tests

PM Sander - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Sauropod dinosaurs are a group of herbivorous dinosaurs which exceeded all other
terrestrial vertebrates in mean and maximal body size. Sauropod dinosaurs were also the …

Re-assessment of the Late Jurassic eusauropod Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum Russell and Zheng, 1993, and the evolution of exceptionally long necks in …

AJ Moore, PM Barrett, P Upchurch… - Journal of Systematic …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The sauropod genus Mamenchisaurus, from the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous of East
Asia, has a convoluted taxonomic history. Although included in the first cladistic analysis of …

High browsing skeletal adaptations in Spinophorosaurus reveal an evolutionary innovation in sauropod dinosaurs

D Vidal, P Mocho, A Aberasturi, JL Sanz, F Ortega - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Sauropods were among the most diverse lineages of dinosaurs, with an ample geographic
distribution throughout the Mesozoic. This evolutionary success is largely attributed to neck …

Ontogenetic similarities between giraffe and sauropod neck osteological mobility

D Vidal, P Mocho, A Páramo, JL Sanz, F Ortega - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The functional morphology of sauropod dinosaur long necks has been studied extensively,
with virtual approaches yielding results that are difficult to obtain with actual fossils, due to …

Vertebral pneumaticity is correlated with serial variation in vertebral shape in storks

AJ Moore - Journal of Anatomy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Birds and their ornithodiran ancestors are unique among vertebrates in exhibiting air‐filled
sinuses in their postcranial bones, a phenomenon called postcranial skeletal pneumaticity …

On Dinosaur Reconstruction: Posture of Dinosaurs

GA Florides, P Christodoulides - Open Journal of Geology, 2021 - ktisis.cut.ac.cy
Dinosaurs due to their diverse species and peculiar forms have drawn the interest of both
artists and scientists. One way to unlock the unknown life of dinosaurs is to reconstruct …

Neck length and mean arterial pressure in the sauropod dinosaurs

S Hughes, J Barry, J Russell, R Bell… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
How blood was able to reach the heads of the long-necked sauropod dinosaurs has long
been a matter of debate and several hypotheses have been presented. For example, it has …

[图书][B] An illustrated guide to dinosaur feeding biology

A Nabavizadeh, DB Weishampel - 2023 - books.google.com
This beautifully illustrated exploration of the diversity, anatomy, and evolution of dinosaur
feeding adaptations is the first and only in-depth look at this crucial aspect of paleoecology …

Tactile tails: A new hypothesis for the function of the elongate tails of diplodocid sauropods

MG Baron - Historical Biology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Tail elongation is a trait common to many sauropod dinosaurs. In certain members of
Diplodocidae, for example, the total caudal vertebrae count is as high as 70 to 80 bones …

[HTML][HTML] A novel feeding mechanism of diplodocid sauropods revealed in an Apatosaurine skull from the Upper Jurassic Nail Quarry (Morrison Formation) at Como …

JE Peterson, D Lovelace, M Connely, JB McHugh - 2022 - palaeo-electronica.org
Dental complexes of sauropod dinosaurs have been studied in members of Diplodocoidea
and Macronaria. However, the disparity among the number of replacement teeth between …