Tyrant dinosaur evolution tracks the rise and fall of Late Cretaceous oceans

MA Loewen, RB Irmis, JJW Sertich, PJ Currie… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The Late Cretaceous (∼ 95–66 million years ago) western North American landmass of
Laramidia displayed heightened non-marine vertebrate diversity and intracontinental …

The 'species recognition hypothesis' does not explain the presence and evolution of exaggerated structures in non‐avialan dinosaurs

DWE Hone, D Naish - Journal of Zoology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The hypothesis that the exaggerated structures in various non‐avialan dinosaurs (eg horns,
crests, plates) primarily functioned in species recognition, allowing individuals of a species …

Caenagnathidae from the Upper Campanian Aguja Formation of West Texas, and a revision of the Caenagnathinae

NR Longrich, K Barnes, S Clark, L Millar - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum …, 2013 - BioOne
abstract Caenagnathid theropods are a relatively common part of the theropod fauna in the
Late Cretaceous of Asia and North America, but have not previously been described from …

The Kaiparowits Formation: a remarkable record of Late Cretaceous terrestrial environments, ecosystems, and evolution in western North America

EM Roberts, SD Sampson, AL Deino, SA Bowring… - 2013 - researchonline.jcu.edu.au
[Extract] Updated Sedimentological and paleontological data support earlier assertions that
the Kaiparowits Formation was deposited in a wet alluvial to coastal plain setting with an …

Skull ecomorphology of megaherbivorous dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation (upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada

JC Mallon, JS Anderson - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Megaherbivorous dinosaur coexistence on the Late Cretaceous island continent of
Laramidia has long puzzled researchers, owing to the mystery of how so many large …

New data on the diversity and abundance of small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Belly River Group (Campanian) of Alberta

CM Brown, DC Evans, MJ Ryan… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Relative to large-bodied dinosaurs, the diversity of small-bodied dinosaurs from the
Campanian of North America is poorly understood due to a lack of well-preserved skeletons …

A remarkable short-snouted horned dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (late Campanian) of southern Laramidia

SD Sampson, EK Lund, MA Loewen… - … of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The fossil record of centrosaurine ceratopsids is largely restricted to the northern region of
western North America (Alberta, Montana and Alaska). Exceptions consist of single taxa …

The variability of inner ear orientation in saurischian dinosaurs: testing the use of semicircular canals as a reference system for comparative anatomy

J Marugán-Lobón, LM Chiappe, AA Farke - PeerJ, 2013 - peerj.com
The vestibular system of the inner ear houses three semicircular canals—oriented on three
nearly-orthogonal planes—that respond to angular acceleration stimuli. In recent years, the …

Is Torosaurus Triceratops? Geometric Morphometric Evidence of Late Maastrichtian Ceratopsid Dinosaurs

L Maiorino, AA Farke, T Kotsakis, P Piras - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Recent assessments of morphological changes in the frill during ontogeny
hypothesized that the late Maastrichtian horned dinosaur Torosaurus represents the “old …

Cranial anatomy and variation in Prosaurolophus maximus (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae)

CT McGarrity, NE Campione… - Zoological Journal of the …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Prosaurolophus maximus Brown is a saurolophine hadrosaurid known from numerous
complete, articulated skulls from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian, Alberta …