Morphometric analysis of the forelimb and pectoral girdle of the Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaur Oryctodromeus cubicularis and implications for digging

JL Fearon, DJ Varricchio - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The basal ornithopod Oryctodromeus cubicularis was described as burrowing due to its
discovery in a burrow structure, and the presence of several morphological features …

Predatory digging behavior by dinosaurs

EL Simpson, HL Hilbert-Wolf, MC Wizevich… - …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Minimal direct evidence exists in the rock record of dinosaurs and mammals behaving as
predators and prey, respectively. A newly discovered Late Cretaceous trace fossil …

Paleoecological utility of insect trace fossils in dinosaur nesting sites of the Two Medicine Formation (Campanian), Choteau, Montana

AJ Martin, DJ Varricchio - Historical Biology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Insect trace fossils, such as burrows, pupation chambers and nests, can provide broad
paleoecological insights by helping to define paleohydrology, effects of seasonality or …

Pain in dinosaurs: what is the evidence?

L Hearn, ACC Williams - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How far back can we trace behaviour associated with pain? Behaviour is not preserved in
the palaeontological record, so, for dinosaurs, we are restricted to what we can deduce from …

[HTML][HTML] The Chinese Pompeii? Death and destruction of dinosaurs in the early Cretaceous of Lujiatun, NE China

CS Rogers, DWE Hone, ME McNamara, Q Zhao… - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Lujiatun Unit (Yixian Formation) yields some of the most spectacular vertebrate
fossils of the Jehol Group (Lower Cretaceous) of NE China. Specimens are preserved both …

Osteology, phylogeny, taphonomy, and ontogenetic histology of Oryctodromeus cubicularis, from the Middle Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) of Montana and Idaho

LJ Krumenacker - 2017 - search.proquest.com
Oryctodromeus is a small bipedal dinosaur known from middle Cretaceous (95–100 My)
Wayan Formation of Idaho and the Vaughn Member of the Blackleaf Formation of Montana …

[PDF][PDF] Ornithopod dinosaurs from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Region, Utah, and their role in paleobiogeographic and macroevolutionary …

TA Gates, EK Lund, CA Boyd, DD DeBlieux… - At the Top of the Grand …, 2013 - academia.edu
Ornithopod dinosaurs were bipedal, herbivorous dinosaurs represented in the Late
Cretaceous of North America by basal ornithopods (“hypsilophodontids”) and a clade of …

Recognition of fossil nebkha deposits: clues from neoichnology and sedimentology

MC Cardonatto, RN Melchor - Palaios, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This study includes the first neoichnologic characterization of the burrow systems of
Tympanoctomys barrerae (Rodentia: Octodontidae) and also considers sedimentologic …

Rare earth element geochemistry of bone beds from the Lower Cretaceous Zhonggou Formation of Gansu Province, China

CA Suarez, EM Morschhauser, MB Suarez… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Auroraceratops rugosus from the Lower Cretaceous Zhonggou Formation, Gansu Province,
China is characterized by exquisite external preservation of articulated, often ventrolaterally …

Taphonomy of and new burrows from Oryctodromeus cubicularis, a burrowing neornithischian dinosaur, from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) of Idaho and …

LJ Krumenacker, DJ Varricchio, JP Wilson… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Vertebrate assemblages from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) Wayan Formation
of Idaho and Vaughn Member of the Blackleaf Formation of Montana are dominated by the …