Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles

CT Griffin, MR Stocker, C Colleary… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Morphology forms the most fundamental level of data in vertebrate palaeontology because it
is through interpretations of morphology that taxa are identified, creating the basis for broad …

An exceptionally preserved Lower Cretaceous ecosystem

Z Zhou, PM Barrett, J Hilton - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Abstract Fieldwork in the Early Cretaceous Jehol Group, northeastern China has revealed a
plethora of extraordinarily well-preserved fossils that are shaping some of the most …

[PDF][PDF] 燕山板内变形带侏罗纪主要构造事件

赵越, 张拴宏, 徐刚, 杨振宇, 胡健民 - 2004 - academia.edu
摘要+ 对燕山地区中生代板内变形的研究进展进行了总结! 确定翁文灏KD
年前识别和提出的燕山运动. 幕& (幕和中间幕发生在侏罗纪$ 侏罗纪的构造变形最终塑造了东西 …

The phylogeny of the ornithischian dinosaurs

RJ Butler, P Upchurch, DB Norman - Journal of Systematic …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Ornithischia is a familiar and diverse clade of dinosaurs whose global phylogeny has
remained largely unaltered since early cladistic analyses in the mid 1980s. Current …

A new phylogeny of cerapodan dinosaurs

PE Dieudonné, P Cruzado-Caballero… - Historical …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This work attempts at providing a revised framework for ornithischian phylogeny, based on
an exhaustive data compilation of already published analyses, a critical re-evaluation of …

Study on the Jehol Biota: recent advances and future prospects

X Xu, Z Zhou, Y Wang, M Wang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Jehol Biota is an Early Cretaceous terrestrial fossil assemblage of paramount
significance, and its core distribution areas are western Liaoning, northern Hebei, and …

[HTML][HTML] The systematic relationships and biogeographic history of ornithischian dinosaurs

CA Boyd - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
The systematic relationships of taxa traditionally referred to as 'basal ornithopods' or
'hypsilophodontids' remain poorly resolved since it was discovered that these taxa are not a …

Evolutionary radiation of the Jehol Biota: chronological and ecological perspectives

Z Zhonghe - Geological Journal, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Jehol Biota, preserved in the lacustrine sediments of Liaoning Province,
northeast China, has provided a new window for understanding Early Cretaceous terrestrial …

The evolution of 'bizarre structures' in dinosaurs: biomechanics, sexual selection, social selection or species recognition?

K Padian, JR Horner - Journal of Zoology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 'Bizarre structures' in dinosaurs have four main traditional explanations: mechanical
function, sexual selection, social selection and species recognition. Any of these can be …

A new pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea, Tapejaridae) from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China and its implications for biostratigraphy

X Wang, Z Zhou - Chinese Science Bulletin, 2003 - Springer
In this article we describe a new and exceptionally well-preserved pterodactyloid pterosaur,
Sinopterus dongi gen. et sp. nov. from the Jiufotang Formation in western Liaoning Province …