Splendid and seldom isolated: the paleobiogeography of Patagonia

P Wilf, NR Cúneo, IH Escapa, D Pol… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The idea that South America was an island continent over most of the Cenozoic, during
which its unusual mammalian faunas evolved in isolation, is outstandingly influential in …

An evolutionary cascade model for sauropod dinosaur gigantism-overview, update and tests

PM Sander - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Sauropod dinosaurs are a group of herbivorous dinosaurs which exceeded all other
terrestrial vertebrates in mean and maximal body size. Sauropod dinosaurs were also the …

Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms

PD Mannion, P Upchurch, RN Barnes… - Zoological Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Titanosauriforms represent a diverse and globally distributed clade of neosauropod
dinosaurs, but their inter-relationships remain poorly understood. Here we redescribe …

The early evolution of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs

MD D'EMIC - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Titanosauriformes was a globally distributed, long-lived clade of dinosaurs that contains
both the largest and smallest known sauropods. These common and diverse …

Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod …

PD Mannion, P Upchurch, D Schwarz… - Zoological Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, southeastern Africa, records a
rich sauropod fauna, including the diplodocoids Dicraeosaurus and Tornieria, and the …

High-precision U–Pb geochronology and a new chronostratigraphy for the Cañadón Asfalto Basin, Chubut, central Patagonia: Implications for terrestrial faunal and …

R Cúneo, J Ramezani, R Scasso, D Pol, I Escapa… - Gondwana …, 2013 - Elsevier
The fluvial, lacustrine and tuffaceous sedimentary succession of the Cañadón Asfalto
continental basin exposed in the Argentinean Chubut Province of central Patagonia …

A new global palaeobiogeographical model for the late Mesozoic and early Tertiary

MD Ezcurra, FL Agnolín - Systematic Biology, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Late Mesozoic palaeobiogeography has been characterized by a distinction between the
northern territories of Laurasia and the southern landmasses of Gondwana. The repeated …

Postcranial axial skeleton of Europasaurus holgeri (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Jurassic of Germany: implications for sauropod ontogeny and …

JL Carballido, PM Sander - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Neosauropods are well represented in the Late Jurassic fossil record, both in Laurasia and
Gondwana. Among Macronaria, Europasaurus represents one of the most basal forms of …

A new Middle Jurassic diplodocoid suggests an earlier dispersal and diversification of sauropod dinosaurs

X Xu, P Upchurch, PD Mannion, PM Barrett… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The fragmentation of the supercontinent Pangaea has been suggested to have had a
profound impact on Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate distributions. One current paradigm is …

Osteology of the Late Cretaceous Argentinean sauropod dinosaur Mendozasaurus neguyelap: implications for basal titanosaur relationships

BJ Gonzalez Riga, PD Mannion… - Zoological Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur Mendozasaurus neguyelap is represented by several
partial skeletons from a single locality within the Coniacian (lower Upper Cretaceous) Sierra …