Splendid and seldom isolated: the paleobiogeography of Patagonia

P Wilf, NR Cúneo, IH Escapa, D Pol… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The idea that South America was an island continent over most of the Cenozoic, during
which its unusual mammalian faunas evolved in isolation, is outstandingly influential in …

An overview of the appendicular skeletal anatomy of South American titanosaurian sauropods, with definition of a newly recognized clade

BJG Riga, MC Lamanna, A Otero… - Anais da Academia …, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
In the last two decades, the number of phylogenetically informative anatomical characters
recognized in the appendicular skeleton of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs has increased …

The phylogeny of tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

MT Carrano, RBJ Benson… - Journal of Systematic …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Tetanuran theropods represent the majority of Mesozoic predatory dinosaur diversity and
the lineage leading to extant Aves. Thus their history is relevant to understanding the …

The early evolution of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs

MD D'EMIC - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Titanosauriformes was a globally distributed, long-lived clade of dinosaurs that contains
both the largest and smallest known sauropods. These common and diverse …

[HTML][HTML] Paleontological discoveries in the Chorrillo Formation (upper Campanian-lower Maastrichtian, Upper Cretaceous), Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia …

F Novas, F Agnolin, S Rozadilla… - Revista del Museo …, 2019 - SciELO Argentina
The first fossil remains of vertebrates, invertebrates, plants and palynomorphs of the
Chorrillo Formation (Austral Basin), about 30km to the SW of the town of El Calafate …

The South American retroarc foreland system: the development of the Bauru Basin in the back-bulge province

MC Menegazzo, O Catuneanu, HK Chang - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
The aim of this research is to understand the tectonic setting of the Bauru Basin. This basin
in central-eastern South America has been classified as intracratonic, but the basin-fill …

A gigantic, exceptionally complete titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from southern Patagonia, Argentina

KJ Lacovara, MC Lamanna, LM Ibiricu, JC Poole… - Scientific Reports, 2014 - nature.com
Titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs were the most diverse and abundant large-bodied
herbivores in the southern continents during the final 30 million years of the Mesozoic Era …

[HTML][HTML] New carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of NW Patagonia and the evolution of abelisaurid theropods

JI Canale, CA Scanferla, FL Agnolin, FE Novas - Naturwissenschaften, 2009 - Springer
A nearly complete skeleton of the new abelisaurid Skorpiovenator bustingorryi is reported
here. The holotype was found in Late Cenomanian–Early Turonian outcrops of NW …

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 …

A bizarre Cretaceous theropod dinosaur from Patagonia and the evolution of Gondwanan dromaeosaurids

FE Novas, D Pol, JI Canale… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fossils of a predatory dinosaur provide novel information about the evolution of
unenlagiines, a poorly known group of dromaeosaurid theropods from Gondwana. The new …