The evolution and fossil history of sensory perception in amniote vertebrates

J Müller, C Bickelmann, G Sobral - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Sensory perception is of crucial importance for animals to interact with their biotic and abiotic
environment. In amniotes, the clade including modern mammals (Synapsida), modern …

[HTML][HTML] Ceratosaur palaeobiology: new insights on evolution and ecology of the southern rulers

R Delcourt - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Ceratosaur theropods ruled the Southern Hemisphere until the end of the Late Cretaceous.
However, their origin was earlier, during the Early Jurassic, a fact which allowed the group to …

[HTML][HTML] The smallest diplodocid skull reveals cranial ontogeny and growth-related dietary changes in the largest dinosaurs

DC Woodruff, TD Carr, GW Storrs, K Waskow… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest terrestrial vertebrates; yet despite a robust global fossil
record, the paucity of cranial remains complicates attempts to understand their paleobiology …

Tyrannosauroids from the Southern Hemisphere: Implications for biogeography, evolution, and taxonomy

R Delcourt, ON Grillo - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Tyrannosauroidea is a well-studied group of carnivorous dinosaurs known mainly from the
Late Cretaceous of the Northern Hemisphere. Specimens from Australia (Timimus hermani …

Reassessment of a fragmentary maxilla attributed to Carcharodontosauridae from Presidente Prudente Formation, Brazil

R Delcourt, ON Grillo - Cretaceous Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Carcharodontosauridae and Abelisauridae are two coexisting clades of theropod dinosaurs
from the Cretaceous of Africa, South America and possibly Europe. The oldest and most …

[HTML][HTML] A new tyrannosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico

AT McDonald, DG Wolfe, AC Dooley Jr - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
1. October 13, 2018: Minor Correction: In the Acknowledgements, Eric Gutierrez is credited
as the sole discoverer of UMNH VP 28348, the holotype of Dynamoterror dynastes. We …

The challenges and potential utility of phenotypic specimen-level phylogeny based on maximum parsimony

E Tschopp, P Upchurch - … Science Transactions of the Royal Society …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Specimen-level phylogenetic approaches are widely used in molecular biology for
taxonomic and systematic purposes. However, they have been largely ignored in analyses …

The distinctive theropod assemblage of the Ellisdale site of New Jersey and its implications for North American dinosaur ecology and evolution during the Cretaceous

CD Brownstein - Journal of Paleontology, 2018 - cambridge.org
The Cretaceous landmass of Appalachia has preserved an understudied but nevertheless
important record of dinosaurs that has recently come under some attention. In the past few …

[PDF][PDF] Cranial anatomy and ontogeny of Gorgosaurus libratus (Tyrannosauridae: Albertosaurinae)

JT Voris - Master's Thesis. University of Calgary, Calgary, 2018 - prism.ucalgary.ca
Tyrannosauridae is a diverse clade of Late Cretaceous theropod dinosaurs that exhibit
significant changes in skull morphology through ontogeny. Whereas mature individuals of …

A Tyrannosauroid from the Lower Cenomanian of New Jersey and its evolutionary and biogeographic implications

CD Brownstein - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2018 - BioOne
Abstract The Barremian through Turonian record of tyrannosauroids in North America is
sparse, and neither the western nor eastern portions of the continent have produced …