[HTML][HTML] A unique Late Triassic dinosauromorph assemblage reveals dinosaur ancestral anatomy and diet

SF Cabreira, AWA Kellner, S Dias-da-Silva… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
Dinosauromorpha includes dinosaurs and other much less diverse dinosaur precursors of
Triassic age, such as lagerpetids [1]. Joint occurrences of these taxa with dinosaurs are rare …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Late Cretaceous dinosaur biogeography and endemism in the Western Interior Basin, North America: a critical re-evaluation

SG Lucas, RM Sullivan, AJ Lichtig… - New Mexico Museum …, 2016 - researchgate.net
North-south provinciality among Campanian and/or Maastrichtian vertebrates, especially
dinosaurs, in the Western Interior basin of North America (specifically, between West Texas …

A review of the upper Campanian vertebrate site of Armuña (Segovia Province, Spain)

A Pérez-García, F Ortega, A Bolet, F Escaso… - Cretaceous …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Upper Cretaceous outcrops of Armuña (Segovia Province, Spain) yielded
relatively abundant material of vertebrates during prospection and excavation in the second …

[HTML][HTML] A basal lithostrotian titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) with a complete skull: implications for the evolution and paleobiology of Titanosauria

RDF Martínez, MC Lamanna, FE Novas, RC Ridgely… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
We describe Sarmientosaurus musacchioi gen. et sp. nov., a titanosaurian sauropod
dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian—Turonian) Lower Member of the Bajo …

A new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Lo Hueco (Cuenca, Spain)

VD Díaz, P Mocho, A Páramo, F Escaso… - Cretaceous …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The upper Campanian-lower Maastrichtian site of Lo Hueco (Cuenca, Spain) has
provided a set of well-preserved partial skeletons in anatomical connection or with a low …

The skull of the titanosaur Tapuiasaurus macedoi (Dinosauria: Sauropoda), a basal titanosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil

JA Wilson, D Pol, AB Carvalho… - Zoological Journal of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Although Titanosauria is the most diverse and late-surviving sauropod lineage, cranial
elements are known for just over 24 of its 70+ genera-the vast majority of which are fairly …

Cranial ontogenetic variation in early saurischians and the role of heterochrony in the diversification of predatory dinosaurs

C Foth, BP Hedrick, MD Ezcurra - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
Non-avian saurischian skulls underwent at least 165 million years of evolution and shapes
varied from elongated skulls, such as in the theropod Coelophysis, to short and box-shaped …

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 …

Appendicular osteology of Dreadnoughtus schrani, a giant titanosaurian (Sauropoda, Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina

PV Ullmann, KJ Lacovara - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The postcranial anatomy of giant titanosaurians remains poorly known because of a
combination of preservational and collection biases. Dreadnoughtus schrani, a recently …