New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography

SF Poropat, PD Mannion, P Upchurch, SA Hocknull… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Australian dinosaurs have played a rare but controversial role in the debate surrounding the
effect of Gondwanan break-up on Cretaceous dinosaur distribution. Major spatiotemporal …

A re-evaluation of the 'mid-Cretaceous sauropod hiatus' and the impact of uneven sampling of the fossil record on patterns of regional dinosaur extinction

PD Mannion, P Upchurch - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2011 - Elsevier
The mid-Cretaceous of North America and Europe has long been noted for the absence of
sauropod dinosaurs, leading several authors to suggest that this depauperate interval is a …

[HTML][HTML] Revision of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae Hocknull et al. 2009 from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia: implications for Gondwanan …

SF Poropat, P Upchurch, PD Mannion, SA Hocknull… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
The osteology of Diamantinasaurus matildae, the most complete Cretaceous sauropod
described from Australia to date, is comprehensively reassessed. The preparation of …

A reappraisal of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: evidence for their Gondwanan affinities

FL Agnolin, MD Ezcurra, DF Pais… - Journal of Systematic …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
It has often been assumed that Australasian Cretaceous dinosaur faunas were for the most
part endemic, but with some Laurasian affinities. In this regard, some Australasian dinosaurs …

New Egyptian sauropod reveals Late Cretaceous dinosaur dispersal between Europe and Africa

HM Sallam, E Gorscak, PM O'Connor… - Nature Ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Prominent hypotheses advanced over the past two decades have sought to characterize the
Late Cretaceous continental vertebrate palaeobiogeography of Gondwanan landmasses …

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 …

Dispersal and diversity in the earliest North American sauropodomorph dinosaurs, with a description of a new taxon

TB Rowe, HD Sues, RR Reisz - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sauropodomorph dinosaurs originated in the Southern Hemisphere in the Middle or Late
Triassic and are commonly portrayed as spreading rapidly to all corners of Pangaea as part …

A new basal sauropod from the pre-Toarcian Jurassic of South Africa: evidence of niche-partitioning at the sauropodomorph–sauropod boundary?

BW McPhee, MF Bonnan, AM Yates, J Neveling… - Scientific Reports, 2015 - nature.com
The early evolution of sauropod dinosaurs remains poorly understood, with a paucity of
unequivocal sauropod taxa known from the first twenty million years of the Jurassic …

A Megaraptor-like theropod (Dinosauria: Tetanurae) in Australia: support for faunal exchange across eastern and western Gondwana in the Mid-Cretaceous

ND Smith, PJ Makovicky, FL Agnolin… - … of the Royal …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The fossil record of Australian dinosaurs in general, and theropods in particular, is extremely
sparse. Here we describe an ulna from the Early Cretaceous Eumeralla Formation of …

High diversity in the sauropod dinosaur fauna of the Lower Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation of South Africa: implications for the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition

BW McPhee, PD Mannion, WJ de Klerk… - Cretaceous Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Kirkwood Formation of South Africa has long been recognized as having the
potential to fill an important gap in the Mesozoic terrestrial fossil record. As one of the few …