A paraphyletic 'Silesauridae'as an alternative hypothesis for the initial radiation of ornithischian dinosaurs

RT Müller, MS Garcia - Biology letters, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Whereas ornithischian dinosaurs are well known from Jurassic and Cretaceous deposits,
deciphering the origin and early evolution of the group remains one of the hardest …

Taxonomic, palaeobiological and evolutionary implications of a phylogenetic hypothesis for Ornithischia (Archosauria: Dinosauria)

DB Norman, MG Baron, MS Garcia… - Zoological Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The origin and evolutionary relationships of ornithischian dinosaurs are topics that have
undergone a series of substantial revisions. At present there are several competing …

The Late Triassic pseudosuchian Revueltosaurus callenderi and its implications for the diversity of early ornithischian dinosaurs

WG Parker, RB Irmis, SJ Nesbitt… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A new discovery of skeletons of Revueltosaurus callenderi from the Upper Triassic Chinle
Formation of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona clearly shows that Revueltosaurus is not …

The phylogeny of the ornithischian dinosaurs

RJ Butler, P Upchurch, DB Norman - Journal of Systematic …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Ornithischia is a familiar and diverse clade of dinosaurs whose global phylogeny has
remained largely unaltered since early cladistic analyses in the mid 1980s. Current …

Pisanosaurus mertii and the Triassic ornithischian crisis: could phylogeny offer a solution?

MG Baron - Historical Biology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Two recent studies have independently recovered Pisanosaurus mertii–long thought to
represent the oldest known member of Ornithischia–within Silesauridae. These finds are …

A primitive ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Triassic of South Africa, and the early evolution and diversification of Ornithischia

RJ Butler, RMH Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Although the group played an important role in the evolution of Late Mesozoic terrestrial
ecosystems, the early evolutionary history of the ornithischian dinosaurs remains poorly …

Early ornithischian dinosaurs: the Triassic record

RB Irmis, WG Parker, SJ Nesbitt, J Liu - Historical Biology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Ornithischian dinosaurs are one of the most taxonomically diverse dinosaur clades during
the Mesozoic, yet their origin and early diversification remain virtually unknown. In recent …

Reconsidering the status and affinities of the ornithischian dinosaur Tatisaurus oehleri Simmons, 1965

DB Norman, RJ Butler… - Zoological Journal of the …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
The early Mesozoic fossil fauna collected from the Lower Lufeng Formation of Yunnan
Province, China, has attracted considerable interest and attention since its discovery in the …

A dinosaur missing-link? Chilesaurus and the early evolution of ornithischian dinosaurs

MG Baron, PM Barrett - Biology Letters, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The enigmatic dinosaur taxon Chilesaurus diegosuarezi was originally described as a
tetanuran theropod, but this species possesses a highly unusual combination of features …

Ornithosuchidae: a group of Triassic archosaurs with a unique ankle joint

MB Baczko, MD Ezcurra - Geological Society, London, Special …, 2013 - lyellcollection.org
The ornithosuchids were a group of archosaurs with body lengths ranging from 2 to 4 m
recorded from Upper Triassic beds in Argentina and Scotland. The group was defined as a …