The Frankfurt specimen of the early-branching ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus is
remarkable for the exquisite preservation of squamous (scaly) skin and other soft tissues that …

Ornithischians form a large clade of globally distributed Mesozoic dinosaurs, and represent
one of their three major radiations. Throughout their evolutionary history, exceeding 134 …

Resolving the evolutionary relationships of early diverging ('basal') ornithischian dinosaurs
is a challenging topic in palaeontology, with multiple competing hypotheses on the …

One of the best-known prosauropods is Plateosaurus, from the Upper Triassic of western
Europe (figure 6.4). Mass death assemblages of this large (6 to 8 meters in body length) …

At the climax of their evolutionary history in the latest Cretaceous, ceratopsian dinosaurs
were among the most dominant components of North American and Asian land ecosystems …

The dental system of ceratopsids is among the most specialized structure in Dinosauria by
the presence of tooth batteries and high-angled wear surfaces. However, the origin of this …

Yinlong downsi, the earliest known ceratopsian, is represented by dozens of specimens of
different sizes collected from the Upper Jurassic of the Junggar Basin, northwestern China …

The ostracod fauna from the Liwaxia and Madongshan formations in the Pingliang area of
the Liupanshan Basin are investigated in this study. Dominated by Liupanshania typica and …

The herbivorous dinosaur clade Ceratopsia flourished in the northern hemisphere during
the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous. Previous palaeobiogeographic studies have …

Here we report a new articulated skeleton of Yamaceratops dorngobiensis (MPC-D
100/553) from the Khugenetjavkhlant locality at the Shine Us Khudag (Javkhlant …