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 …

The multi-peak adaptive landscape of crocodylomorph body size evolution

PL Godoy, RBJ Benson, M Bronzati, RJ Butler - BMC evolutionary biology, 2019 - Springer
Background Little is known about the long-term patterns of body size evolution in
Crocodylomorpha, the> 200-million-year-old group that includes living crocodylians and …

New information on the Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs of Zhejiang Province, China: impact on Laurasian titanosauriform phylogeny and biogeography

PD Mannion, P Upchurch, X Jin… - Royal Society Open …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Titanosaurs were a globally distributed clade of Cretaceous sauropods. Historically
regarded as a primarily Gondwanan radiation, there is a growing number of Eurasian taxa …

The earliest known titanosaur sauropod dinosaur

PA Gallina, JI Canale, JL Carballido - Ameghiniana, 2021 - BioOne
The titanosaur sauropod record of Patagonia, mainly recovered from Upper Cretaceous
strata, is probably the richest worldwide. Here we present a new sauropod dinosaur …

Second specimen of the Late Cretaceous Australian sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae provides new anatomical information on the skull and neck of …

SF Poropat, M Kundrát, PD Mannion… - Zoological Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae is represented by two
individuals from the Cenomanian–lower Turonian 'upper'Winton Formation of central …

[HTML][HTML] A new African titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the middle cretaceous galula formation (Mtuka Member), Rukwa Rift Basin, Southwestern Tanzania

E Gorscak, PM O'Connor - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The African terrestrial fossil record has been limited in its contribution to our understanding
of both regional and global Cretaceous paleobiogeography, an interval of significant …

Dinosaur macroevolution and macroecology

RBJ Benson - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Dinosaurs were large-bodied land animals of the Mesozoic that gave rise to birds. They
played a fundamental role in structuring Jurassic–Cretaceous ecosystems and had …

A new nanoid titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil

BA Navarro, AM Ghilardi, T Aureliano, VD Díaz… - Ameghiniana, 2022 - BioOne
Los saurópodos titanosaurios son conocidos por mostrar una notable disparidad de tamaño
corporal, con algunos taxones famosos por acercarse al cenit del tamaño corporal de un …

Sauropodomorph evolution across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary: body size, locomotion, and their influence on morphological disparity

C Apaldetti, D Pol, MD Ezcurra, RN Martínez - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Sauropodomorph dinosaurs were the dominant medium to large-sized herbivores of most
Mesozoic continental ecosystems, being characterized by their long necks and reaching a …

Sauropod dinosaur teeth from the lower Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia and the global record of early titanosauriforms

SF Poropat, TG Frauenfelder… - Royal Society …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, has produced several
partial sauropod skeletons, but cranial remains—including teeth—remain rare. Herein, we …