[HTML][HTML] A review of dromaeosaurid systematics and paravian phylogeny

AH Turner, PJ Makovicky, MA Norell - Bulletin of the American museum of …, 2012 - BioOne
Coelurosauria is the most diverse clade of theropod dinosaurs. Much of this diversity is
present in Paraves—the clade of dinosaurs containing dromaeosaurids, troodontids, and …

Chronostratigraphic synthesis of the latest Cretaceous dinosaur turnover in south-western Europe

V Fondevilla, V Riera, B Vila, AG Sellés… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
In south-western Europe, the uppermost Cretaceous continental deposits in the different
sedimentary basins of Iberia (Portugal and north and central Spain), the Pyrenees (Spain …

[HTML][HTML] Island life in the Cretaceous-faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European …

Z Csiki-Sava, E Buffetaut, A Ősi, X Pereda-Suberbiola… - ZooKeys, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The Late Cretaceous was a time of tremendous global change, as the final stages
of the Age of Dinosaurs were shaped by climate and sea level fluctuations and witness to …

[HTML][HTML] The distribution of dental features in non-avian theropod dinosaurs: Taxonomic potential, degree of homoplasy, and major evolutionary trends

C Hendrickx, O Mateus, M da Lourinhã, R Araújo… - 2019 - palaeo-electronica.org
Isolated theropod teeth are some of the most common fossils in the dinosaur fossil record
and are continually reported in the literature. Recently developed quantitative methods have …

Dental morphology and variation in theropod dinosaurs: implications for the taxonomic identification of isolated teeth

JB Smith, DR Vann, P Dodson - The Anatomical Record Part A …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Isolated theropod teeth are common Mesozoic fossils and would be an important data
source for paleoecology biogeography if they could be reliably identified as having come …

[HTML][HTML] Abelisauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal and dentition-based phylogeny as a contribution for the identification of isolated …

C Hendrickx, O Mateus - Zootaxa, 2014 - docentes.fct.unl.pt
Theropod dinosaurs form a highly diversified clade, and their teeth are some of the most
common components of the Mesozoic dinosaur fossil record. This is the case in the Lourinhã …

The influence of juvenile dinosaurs on community structure and diversity

K Schroeder, SK Lyons, FA Smith - Science, 2021 - science.org
Despite dominating biodiversity in the Mesozoic, dinosaurs were not speciose. Oviparity
constrained even gigantic dinosaurs to less than 15 kg at birth; growth through multiple …

[HTML][HTML] Pennaraptoran theropod dinosaurs past progress and new frontiers

M Pittman, X Xu - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2020 - BioOne
This chapter will cover clade definitions, the relationships within clades as well as the
occasional controversial relationships between different clades. Phylogenies arising from a …

[HTML][HTML] The osteology of Balaur bondoc, an island-dwelling dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Romania

SL Brusatte, M Vremir, Z Csiki-Sava, AH Turner… - Bulletin of the American …, 2013 - BioOne
The Haţeg Island fauna of the terminal Late Cretaceous (ca. 71–65 million years ago) of
Romania is one of the most unusual dinosaur assemblages in the global fossil record. It has …

The first giant raptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae) from the hell creek formation

RA DePalma, DA Burnham, LD Martin… - Paleontological …, 2015 - BioOne
Most dromaeosaurids were small-to medium-sized cursorial, scansorial, and arboreal,
sometimes volant predators, but a comparatively small percentage grew to gigantic …