Vertebrate assemblages from the early Late Cretaceous of southeastern Morocco: an overview

L Cavin, H Tong, L Boudad, C Meister, A Piuz… - Journal of African Earth …, 2010 - Elsevier
Fossils of vertebrates have been found in great abundance in the continental and marine
early Late Cretaceous sediments of Southeastern Morocco for more than 50 years. About 80 …

A century of spinosaurs‐a review and revision of the Spinosauridae with comments on their ecology

DWE Hone, TR Holtz Jr - Acta Geologica Sinica‐English …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The spinosaurids represent an enigmatic and highly unusual form of large tetanuran
theropods that were first identified in 1915. A recent flurry of discoveries and taxonomic …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Geology and paleontology of the upper cretaceous Kem Kem group of eastern Morocco

N Ibrahim, PC Sereno, DJ Varricchio, DM Martill… - ZooKeys, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The geological and paleoenvironmental setting and the vertebrate taxonomy of the
fossiliferous, Cenomanian-age deltaic sediments in eastern Morocco, generally referred to …

[图书][B] Pterosaurs: natural history, evolution, anatomy

MP Witton - 2013 - degruyter.com
For 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds--they belonged to the pterosaurs.
These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian …

Semiaquatic adaptations in a giant predatory dinosaur

N Ibrahim, PC Sereno, C Dal Sasso, S Maganuco… - Science, 2014 - science.org
We describe adaptations for a semiaquatic lifestyle in the dinosaur Spinosaurus
aegyptiacus. These adaptations include retraction of the fleshy nostrils to a position near the …

[HTML][HTML] The distribution of dental features in non-avian theropod dinosaurs: Taxonomic potential, degree of homoplasy, and major evolutionary trends

C Hendrickx, O Mateus, M da Lourinhã, R Araújo… - 2019 - palaeo-electronica.org
Isolated theropod teeth are some of the most common fossils in the dinosaur fossil record
and are continually reported in the literature. Recently developed quantitative methods have …

[HTML][HTML] New giant carnivorous dinosaur reveals convergent evolutionary trends in theropod arm reduction

JI Canale, S Apesteguía, PA Gallina, J Mitchell… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Giant carnivorous dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex and abelisaurids are characterized
by highly reduced forelimbs that stand in contrast to their huge dimensions, massive skulls …

A description of Megalosaurus bucklandii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Bathonian of the UK and the relationships of Middle Jurassic theropods

RBJ Benson - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Megalosaurus bucklandii (Dinosauria: Theropoda), the oldest named dinosaur
taxon, from the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) of England, is a valid taxon diagnosed by a …

A new theropod dinosaur from the early cretaceous (Barremian) of Cabo Espichel, Portugal: Implications for spinosaurid evolution

O Mateus, D Estraviz-López - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Spinosaurids are some of the most enigmatic Mesozoic theropod dinosaurs due to their
unique adaptations to aquatic environments and their relative scarcity. Their taxonomy has …