A century of spinosaurs‐a review and revision of the Spinosauridae with comments on their ecology

DWE Hone, TR Holtz Jr - Acta Geologica Sinica‐English …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The spinosaurids represent an enigmatic and highly unusual form of large tetanuran
theropods that were first identified in 1915. A recent flurry of discoveries and taxonomic …

[图书][B] Pterosaurs: natural history, evolution, anatomy

MP Witton - 2013 - degruyter.com
For 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds--they belonged to the pterosaurs.
These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian …

Ecological and evolutionary implications of dinosaur feeding behaviour

PM Barrett, EJ Rayfield - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2006 - cell.com
Dinosaurs had a wide variety of feeding mechanisms that strongly impacted on their ecology
and evolution. Here, we show how novel application of technologies borrowed from …

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 …

[图书][B] Fossil behavior compendium

AJ Boucot, GO Poinar Jr - 2010 - taylorfrancis.com
In this complete and thorough update of Arthur Boucot's seminal work, Evolutionary
Paleobiology of Behavior and Coevolution, Boucot is joined by George Poinar, who …

A new theropod dinosaur from the early cretaceous (Barremian) of Cabo Espichel, Portugal: Implications for spinosaurid evolution

O Mateus, D Estraviz-López - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Spinosaurids are some of the most enigmatic Mesozoic theropod dinosaurs due to their
unique adaptations to aquatic environments and their relative scarcity. Their taxonomy has …

[图书][B] Jurassic West: the dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and their world

J Foster - 2020 - books.google.com
The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, formed one hundred and fifty million
years ago and running from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American …

Oxygen isotope evidence for semi-aquatic habits among spinosaurid theropods

R Amiot, E Buffetaut, C Lécuyer, X Wang… - …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Spinosaurs were large theropod dinosaurs showing peculiar specializations, including
somewhat crocodile-like elongate jaws and conical teeth. Their biology has been much …

Feeding behaviour and bone utilization by theropod dinosaurs

DWE Hone, OWM Rauhut - Lethaia, 2010 - idunn.no
Examples of bone exploitation by carnivorous theropod dinosaurs are relatively rare,
representing an apparent waste of both mineral and energetic resources. A review of the …

Functional morphology of spinosaur 'crocodile-mimic'dinosaurs

EJ Rayfield, AC Milner, VB Xuan… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Spinosaurid theropod dinosaurs appear to represent convergent morphological evolution
toward a croc-odylian-like cranial morphology, previously linked to the possibility that …