[PDF][PDF] The assembly of the avian body plan: a 160-million-year long process

CAU Andrea - Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 2018 - paleoitalia.it
The assembly of the avian body plan: a 160 million year long process Page 1 Bollettino
della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 57 (1), 2018. Modena The assembly of the avian body …

Calcium isotopes offer clues on resource partitioning among Cretaceous predatory dinosaurs

A Hassler, JE Martin, R Amiot… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Large predators are overabundant in mid-Cretaceous continental dinosaur assemblages of
North Africa. Such unbalanced ecosystem structure involves, among predatory dinosaurs …

A mid-Cretaceous embryonic-to-neonate snake in amber from Myanmar

L Xing, MW Caldwell, R Chen, RL Nydam, A Palci… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
We present the first known fossilized snake embryo/neonate preserved in early Late
Cretaceous (Early Cenomanian) amber from Myanmar, which at the time, was an island arc …

A buoyancy, balance and stability challenge to the hypothesis of a semi-aquatic Spinosaurus Stromer, 1915 (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

DM Henderson - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
A recent interpretation of the fossil remains of the enigmatic, large predatory dinosaur
Spinosaurus aegyptiacus proposed that it was specially adapted for a semi-aquatic mode of …

Semi-aquatic adaptations in a spinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil

T Aureliano, AM Ghilardi, PV Buck, M Fabbri… - Cretaceous …, 2018 - Elsevier
Spinosaurinae are known to have a strong relationship with aquatic environments, involving
several anatomical adaptations. Nonetheless, this group of theropods remains enigmatic …

A new contribution to our knowledge of the large-bodied theropods from the Barremian of the Iberian Peninsula: the “Barranco del Hocino” site (Spain)

A Alonso, JM Gasca, P Navarro-Lorbés, C Rubio… - Journal of Iberian …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Introduction Barranco del Hocino-1 is a new fossil site located near Estercuel,
Teruel province, Spain. The fossil site is located geologically within the Oliete sub-basin, in …

A hypertrophied ungual phalanx from the lower Barremian of Spain: Implications for the diversity and palaeoecology of Spinosauridae (Theropoda) in Iberia

JM Gasca, I Díaz-Martínez, M Moreno-Azanza… - Cretaceous …, 2018 - Elsevier
An enlarged theropod manual ungual (CSC1-4) from the Weald facies of Spain is described.
The claw was found in the fossil locality of Caña Seca 1, Teruel province, within the El …

[HTML][HTML] The smallest biggest theropod dinosaur: a tiny pedal ungual of a juvenile Spinosaurus from the Cretaceous of Morocco

S Maganuco, C Dal Sasso - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
We describe a nearly complete pedal ungual phalanx, discovered in the Kem Kem Beds
(Cenomanian) of Tafilalt region, south-eastern Morocco. The bone is symmetric, pointed …

New spinosaurid (Theropoda, Megalosauroidea) remains from the Arcillas de Morella Formation (upper Barremian) of Morella, Spain

E Malafaia, JM Gasulla, F Escaso, I Narváez… - Cretaceous …, 2018 - Elsevier
The record of spinosaurids currently known in Spain is scarce and represented mainly by
isolated teeth and other fragmentary skeletal elements. Most of these previously described …

Large-sized theropod Spinosaurus: an important component of the carnivorous dinosaur fauna in southern continents during the Cretaceous

CRA Candeiro, LM Gil… - Bulletin de la Société …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Early Cretaceous of North Africa has Spinosaurinae dinosaur remains such as
Spinosaurus recorded in Algeria (Guir Basin, Kem Kem beds), Egypt (Bahariya Formation) …