Largest known madtsoiid snake from warm Eocene period of India suggests intercontinental Gondwana dispersal

D Datta, S Bajpai - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Here we report the discovery of fossils representing partial vertebral column of a giant
madtsoiid snake from an early Middle Eocene (Lutetian,~ 47 Ma) lignite-bearing succession …

New snakes from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar

AC Pritchard, JA McCartney, DW Krause… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
We describe three new fossil snakes on the basis of recently discovered vertebrae collected
from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maevarano Formation of Madagascar. One …

[HTML][HTML] Jurassic-Cretaceous and Cretaceous-Paleogene Transitions and Mesozoic Vertebrates from Pakistan

MS Malkani - Open Journal of Geology, 2021 - scirp.org
The Jurassic-Cretaceous (J/K) and Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundaries/transitions are
found in Pakistan especially well exposed on the western continental margin of the Indo …

Giants on the landscape: modelling the abundance of megaherbivorous dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic, western USA)

JO Farlow, ID Coroian, JR Foster - Historical Biology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The ecosystem impact of megaherbivorous dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation would have
depended on their abundance (number of animals per unit of habitat area) on the …

Restudy of the original and new materials of Stromatoolithus pinglingensis and discussion on some Spheroolithidae eggs

X Zhu, Q Wang, X Wang - Historical Biology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, we restudied a rarely known oospecies from China, Stromatoolithus
pinglingensis. Original materials from type locality Nanxiong, Guangdong Province as well …

Spheroolithus europaeus, oosp. nov. (late Maastrichtian, Catalonia), the youngest oological record of hadrosauroids in Eurasia

AG Sellés, B Via, Á Galobart - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
(Nopcsa, 1899), and Canardia garonnensis (Prieto-Márquez et al., 2013). In addition, some
indeterminate forms, comprising basal hadrosauroids, hadrosaurines, and lambeosaurines …

[HTML][HTML] Gastroliths and Deinonychus teeth associated with a skeleton of Tenontosaurus from the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Montana, USA

JR Nudds, DR Lomax, JP Tennant - Cretaceous Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Tenontosaurus tilletti was an abundant ornithischian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of
North America, commonly regarded as a 'basal'iguanodontian. Here, we describe a …

Palaeoecological inferences for the fossil Australian snakes Yurlunggur and Wonambi (Serpentes, Madtsoiidae)

A Palci, MN Hutchinson… - Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Madtsoiids are among the most basal snakes, with a fossil record dating back to the Upper
Cretaceous (Cenomanian). Most representatives went extinct by the end of the Eocene, but …

[HTML][HTML] Abdominal contents reveal Cretaceous crocodyliforms ate dinosaurs

MA White, PR Bell, NE Campione, G Sansalone… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
Crocodylians are among Earth's most successful hyper-carnivores, with their crocodyliform
ancestors persisting since the Triassic. The diets of extinct crocodyliforms are typically …

Microstructural description of the maniraptoran egg Protoceratopsidovum

S Choi, DE Barta, M Moreno‐Azanza… - Papers in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since their discovery in the 1920s, some asymmetric, elongated dinosaur eggs from the
Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia have been interpreted as ceratopsian eggs. However, recent …