Dinosaur diversification linked with the Carnian Pluvial Episode

M Bernardi, P Gianolla, FM Petti, P Mietto… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Dinosaurs diversified in two steps during the Triassic. They originated about 245 Ma, during
the recovery from the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, and then remained insignificant until …

[HTML][HTML] A giant dinosaur from the earliest Jurassic of South Africa and the transition to quadrupedality in early sauropodomorphs

BW McPhee, RBJ Benson, J Botha-Brink, EM Bordy… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Sauropod dinosaurs were dominant, bulk-browsing herbivores for 130 million years of the
Mesozoic, attaining gigantic body masses in excess of 60 metric tons [1, 2]. A columnar …

[PDF][PDF] A review of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic tetrapods from Greenland

M Marzola, O Mateus, J Milan… - Bulletin of the Geological …, 2018 - 2dgf.dk
Devonian of the Aina Dal and Britta Dal Formations; four temnospondyl amphibians
(Aquiloniferus kochi, Selenocara groenlandica, Stoschiosaurus nielseni, and …

Photogrammetry in ichnology: 3D model generation, visualisation, and data extraction

JN Lallensack, M Buchwitz, A Romilio - 2020 - eartharxiv.org
3D digitisation of surfaces became a standard procedure in ichnology in recent years. 3D
models allow not only for the digital preservation of vulnerable ichnological records, but also …

Non-mammaliaform cynodonts from western Gondwana and the significance of Argentinean forms in enhancing understanding of the group

F Abdala, LC Gaetano, AG Martinelli, MB Soares… - Journal of South …, 2020 - Elsevier
Terrestrial Triassic assemblages are an important component of the heritage of Argentina,
particularly because of their diverse record of fossil vertebrates. Triassic basins from western …

Softening the steps to gigantism in sauropod dinosaurs through the evolution of a pedal pad

A Jannel, SW Salisbury, O Panagiotopoulou - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
How sauropod dinosaurs were able to withstand the forces associated with their immense
size represents one of the most challenging biomechanical scenarios in the evolution of …

Upper Paleozoic to lower Mesozoic tetrapod ichnology revisited: photogrammetry and relative depth pattern inferences on functional prevalence of autopodia

E Mujal, L Marchetti, RR Schoch… - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In recent years photogrammetry has become an essential tool in the study of tetrapod
footprints. Morphological analyses of footprints are interpretative; thus, researchers should …

Determining the largest known land animal: A critical comparison of differing methods for restoring the volume and mass of extinct animals

G Paul - Annals of Carnegie Museum, 2019 - BioOne
Recent claims regarding what is and is not the largest known sauropod dinosaur are tested
via dimensional comparisons of the most critical metrics of relative size—especially, when …

Biostratigraphy of the Scalenodontoides Assemblage Zone (Stormberg Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa

PA Viglietti, BW McPhee, EM Bordy… - … African Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Scalenodontoides Assemblage Zone (SAZ) is the oldest fossil tetrapod biozone
of the Stormberg Group (Karoo Supergroup) and preserves the oldest dinosaur bearing …

Late Triassic nonmarine vertebrate and invertebrate trace fossils and the pattern of the Phanerozoic record of vertebrate trace fossils

AP Hunt, SG Lucas, H Klein - The Late Triassic World: Earth in a Time of …, 2018 - Springer
The diverse ichnofaunas of the Late Triassic have been studied for almost 200 years. During
the Late Triassic, facies favorable for the preservation of trace fossils were the result of low …