New specimens of Baurutitan britoi and a taxonomic reassessment of the titanosaur dinosaur fauna (Sauropoda) from the Serra da Galga Formation (Late Cretaceous) …

JCGS Junior, AG Martinelli, TS Marinho, JI da Silva… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
The description of new titanosaur specimens unearthed from deposits of the Serra da Galga
Formation (Bauru Group, Late Cretaceous) at the BR-262 site, near Peirópolis (Uberaba …

Soft-Tissue, Rare Earth Element, and Molecular Analyses of Dreadnoughtus schrani, an Exceptionally Complete Titanosaur from Argentina

ER Schroeter, PV Ullmann, K Macauley, RD Ash… - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Although many analytical techniques have shown that organic material
can be preserved in fossils for millions of years, the geochemical factors that allow this …

The appendicular myology of Stegoceras validum (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauridae) and implications for the head-butting hypothesis

BRS Moore, MJ Roloson, PJ Currie, MJ Ryan… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
In this study, we use an exceptional skeleton of the pachycephalosaur Stegoceras validum
(UALVP 2) to inform a comprehensive appendicular muscle reconstruction of the animal …

Walking with early dinosaurs: appendicular myology of the Late Triassic sauropodomorph Thecodontosaurus antiquus

A Ballell, EJ Rayfield… - Royal Society open …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Dinosaur evolution is marked by numerous independent shifts from bipedality to
quadrupedality. Sauropodomorpha is one of the lineages that transitioned from small …

Three-dimensional analysis of the titanosaurian limb skeleton: implications for systematic analysis

A Páramo, P Mocho, F Ortega - Journal of Iberian Geology, 2020 - Springer
The titanosaurian appendicular skeleton exhibits morphological similarities among different
clades and its osteological information is usually less taxonomically meaningful than those …

Myological reconstruction of the pelvic girdle and hind limb of the giant titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur Dreadnoughtus schrani

KK Voegele, PV Ullmann, MC Lamanna… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Osteological correlates preserve more readily than their soft tissue counterparts in the fossil
record; therefore, they can more often provide insight into the soft tissue anatomy of the …

Re-assessment of the Late Jurassic eusauropod dinosaur Hudiesaurus sinojapanorum Dong, 1997, from the Turpan Basin, China, and the evolution of hyper-robust …

P Upchurch, PD Mannion, X Xu… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Hudiesaurus sinojapanorum is a Late Jurassic sauropod from northwestern China that was
erected on the basis of a cervicodorsal vertebra, four teeth, and a nearly complete forelimb …

Constraining morphologies of soft tissues in extinct vertebrates using multibody dynamic simulations: a case study on articular cartilage of the sauropod …

KK Voegele, MF Bonnan, S Siegler… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Rarity of soft tissue preservation, including of articular cartilage, in the fossil record hinders
creation of biologically-realistic mechanical models. Previous studies of articular cartilage in …

The postcranial skeleton of Cerrejonisuchus improcerus (Crocodyliformes: Dyrosauridae) and the unusual anatomy of dyrosaurids

I Scavezzoni, V Fischer - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Dyrosauridae is a clade of neosuchian crocodyliforms that diversified in terrestrial and
aquatic environments across the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition. The postcranial anatomy …

[HTML][HTML] New sauropod appendicular remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Romania: accessing the morphological variability.

P Mocho, A Pérez-García, VA Codrea - Cretaceous Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Upper Cretaceous sauropod fossil record from Romania is abundant, mostly
originated from the Maastrichtian deposits of the western-southwestern margin of the …