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 …

The phylogeny and evolutionary history of tyrannosauroid dinosaurs

SL Brusatte, TD Carr - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Tyrannosauroids—the group of carnivores including Tyrannosaurs rex—are some of the
most familiar dinosaurs of all. A surge of recent discoveries has helped clarify some aspects …

[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 …

New tyrannosaur from the mid-Cretaceous of Uzbekistan clarifies evolution of giant body sizes and advanced senses in tyrant dinosaurs

SL Brusatte, A Averianov, HD Sues… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Tyrannosaurids—the familiar group of carnivorous dinosaurs including Tyrannosaurus and
Albertosaurus—were the apex predators in continental ecosystems in Asia and North …

Multivariate and cladistic analyses of isolated teeth reveal sympatry of theropod dinosaurs in the Late Jurassic of Northern Germany

O Gerke, O Wings - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Remains of theropod dinosaurs are very rare in Northern Germany because the area was
repeatedly submerged by a shallow epicontinental sea during the Mesozoic. Here, 80 Late …

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 …

A new ornithomimid theropod from the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada

B McFeeters, MJ Ryan, C Schröder-Adams… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A partial ornithomimid skeleton, ROM 1790, from the lower Dinosaur Park
Formation (upper Campanian) of Alberta was previously referred to Struthiomimus altus, but …

Palaeoenvironmental drivers of vertebrate community composition in the Belly River Group (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada, with implications for dinosaur …

TM Cullen, DC Evans - BMC ecology, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background The Belly River Group of southern Alberta is one of the best-sampled
Late Cretaceous terrestrial faunal assemblages in the world. This system provides a high …

Bony cranial ornamentation linked to rapid evolution of gigantic theropod dinosaurs

TA Gates, C Organ, LE Zanno - Nature Communications, 2016 - nature.com
Exaggerated cranial structures such as crests and horns, hereafter referred to collectively as
ornaments, are pervasive across animal species. These structures perform vital roles in …

Baenid turtles of the Kaiparowits Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Campanian) of southern Utah, USA

JR Lively - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
I describe the assemblage of baenid turtles found in the Campanian Kaiparowits Formation
of southern Utah and compare it with baenids from other basins across Laramidia. Baenids …