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 …

[HTML][HTML] Dinosaur paleohistology: review, trends and new avenues of investigation

AM Bailleul, J O'Connor, MH Schweitzer - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
In the mid-19th century, the discovery that bone microstructure in fossils could be preserved
with fidelity provided a new avenue for understanding the evolution, function, and …

A new nanoid titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil

BA Navarro, AM Ghilardi, T Aureliano, VD Díaz… - Ameghiniana, 2022 - BioOne
Los saurópodos titanosaurios son conocidos por mostrar una notable disparidad de tamaño
corporal, con algunos taxones famosos por acercarse al cenit del tamaño corporal de un …

[HTML][HTML] Two Late Cretaceous sauropods reveal titanosaurian dispersal across South America

EM Hechenleitner, L Leuzinger, AG Martinelli… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
South American titanosaurians have been central to the study of the evolution of Cretaceous
sauropod dinosaurs. Despite their remarkable diversity, the fragmentary condition of several …

[HTML][HTML] A new oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the end-Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation of North America

KL Atkins-Weltman, DJ Simon, HN Woodward… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Caenagnathidae is a clade of derived, Late Cretaceous oviraptorosaurian theropods from
Asia and North America. Because their remains are rare and often fragmentary …

Palaeobiology of the early sauropodomorph Mussaurus patagonicus inferred from its long bone histology

IA Cerda, D Pol, A Otero, A Chinsamy - Palaeontology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We present a detailed histological study of long bones from an ontogenetic series of
Mussaurus patagonicus, an early sauropodomorph from the Lower Jurassic of Argentina …

Updated geology and vertebrate paleontology of the Triassic Ntawere Formation of northeastern Zambia, with special emphasis on the archosauromorphs

BR Peecook, JS Steyer, NJ Tabor… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The two vertebrate fossil assemblages from the? Middle Triassic Ntawere Formation have
been known since the 1960s, but little new work has been done since the description of …

A quantitative method for inferring locomotory shifts in amniotes during ontogeny, its application to dinosaurs and its bearing on the evolution of posture

KEJ Chapelle, RBJ Benson, J Stiegler, A Otero… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Evolutionary transitions between quadrupedal and bipedal postures are pivotal to the
diversification of amniotes on land, including in our own lineage (Hominini). Heterochrony is …

[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 …

The titanosaurian dinosaur Atsinganosaurus velauciensis (Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France: new material, phylogenetic affinities, and …

VD Díaz, G Garcia, X Pereda-Suberbiola… - Cretaceous …, 2018 - Elsevier
New remains of the titanosaurian sauropod Atsinganosaurus velauciensis from its Upper
Cretaceous type horizon and type locality in Velaux-La Bastide Neuve (Bouches-du-Rhône …