The tyrant lizard king, queen and emperor: Multiple lines of morphological and stratigraphic evidence support subtle evolution and probable speciation within the …

GS Paul, WS Persons, J Van Raalte - Evolutionary Biology, 2022 - Springer
All skeletal specimens of the North American dinosaur Tyrannosaurus and a number of trace
fossils have been attributed to the single species: T. rex. Although an unusual degree of …

“Dragons” on the landscape: Modeling the abundance of large carnivorous dinosaurs of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation (USA) and the Upper Cretaceous …

JO Farlow, D Coroian, PJ Currie, JR Foster… - The Anatomical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Counts of the number of skeletal specimens of “adult” megaherbivores and large theropods
from the Morrison and Dinosaur Park formations—if not biased by taphonomic artifacts …

[HTML][HTML] Demographic interpretation of colossal theropod footprints discoveries from Imilchil (Mid-Jurassic, Central High Atlas, Morocco)

JM Ceniceros, JO Farlow, M Masrour… - Journal of African Earth …, 2022 - Elsevier
Among the footprints found in Imilchil (Central High Atlas, Morocco) are two large ichnites
that we characterize as “colossal” to distinguish them from the “giant” theropod footprints in …

[HTML][HTML] Coexistence, energy, and trophic cascade in a three-level food chain integrating body sizes

W Campillay-Llanos, FD Córdova-Lepe… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Predation is a biological interaction that influences demographic patterns by modifying
community structure. In the current ecological crisis, there is a need to better understand the …

Osteohistological description of ostrich and emu long bones, with comments on markers of growth

N Ong, B Hart‐Farrar, K Tremaine… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ostriches and emus are among the largest extant birds and are frequently used as modern
analogs for the growth dynamics of non‐avian theropod dinosaurs. These ratites quickly …

Developmental plasticity in deep time: a window to population ecological inference

A Brombacher, DN Schmidt, THG Ezard - Paleobiology, 2023 - cambridge.org
Developmental plasticity, where traits change state in response to environmental cues, is
well studied in modern populations. It is also suspected to play a role in macroevolutionary …

A mathematical model to calculate the population of Mammuthus columbi (Mammalia, Proboscidea, Elephantidae) during the Late Pleistocene in the Valsequillo …

FJ Jiménez-Moreno, ED Morales-Tehuitzitl… - Historical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Mathematical models are a helpful tool that can help palaeoecology research advance in
similar ways as the ones already used in theoretical ecology. In this article, we use a …

[PDF][PDF] Why tyrannosaurid forelimbs were so short: An integrative hypothesis

K Padian - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 - bibliotekanauki.pl
The unusually shortened limbs of giant theropods, including abelisaurids,
carcharodontosaurids, and derived tyrannosauroids such as Tyrannosaurus rex have long …

Population sizes of T. rex cannot be precisely estimated

S Meiri - Frontiers of Biogeography, 2022 - escholarship.org
Marshall et al. recently estimated population densities, range sizes, instant and cumulative
total population sizes for Tyrannosaurus rex with narrow ranges of uncertainly. I revisit the …

[PDF][PDF] Extreme abundance of ammonoids in mass accumulations from the Late Devonian of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas

M Greif, JH Nebelsick, C Klug - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 - yadda.icm.edu.pl
The eastern Anti-Atlas is renowned for its highly fossiliferous outcrops of Devonian rocks.
Ammonoids occur in rock-forming numbers at many localities in the Tafilalt and Maïder. This …