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 …

[HTML][HTML] A revised cranial description of Massospondylus carinatus Owen (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) based on computed tomographic scans and a review of …

KEJ Chapelle, JN Choiniere - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Massospondylus carinatus is a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the early Jurassic
Elliot Formation of South Africa. It is one of the best-represented fossil dinosaur taxa, known …

High-precision U–Pb geochronology and a new chronostratigraphy for the Cañadón Asfalto Basin, Chubut, central Patagonia: Implications for terrestrial faunal and …

R Cúneo, J Ramezani, R Scasso, D Pol, I Escapa… - Gondwana …, 2013 - Elsevier
The fluvial, lacustrine and tuffaceous sedimentary succession of the Cañadón Asfalto
continental basin exposed in the Argentinean Chubut Province of central Patagonia …

[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 …

Early evolution of sauropodomorphs: anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of a remarkably well-preserved dinosaur from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil

RT Müller, MC Langer, M Bronzati… - Zoological Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
An exceptional new specimen (CAPPA/UFSM 0035) of Buriolestes schultzi was discovered
during recent fieldwork at the type locality of the taxon, which is Carnian in age (Late …

Mass extinctions drove increased global faunal cosmopolitanism on the supercontinent Pangaea

DJ Button, GT Lloyd, MD Ezcurra, RJ Butler - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
Mass extinctions have profoundly impacted the evolution of life through not only reducing
taxonomic diversity but also reshaping ecosystems and biogeographic patterns. In …

The paleoclimatic context for South American Triassic vertebrate evolution

AC Mancuso, BLD Horn, CA Benavente… - Journal of South …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Triassic Period was the setting for the origin and early diversification of
Mesozoic ecosystems after the end-Permian mass extinction. The study of the Triassic is …

[图书][B] Phylonyms: a companion to the PhyloCode

K de Queiroz, P Cantino, J Gauthier - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and
recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …

Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs from South America: The origin and diversification of dinosaur dominated herbivorous faunas

D Pol, A Otero, C Apaldetti, RN Martínez - Journal of South American Earth …, 2021 - Elsevier
Sauropodomorpha is the first major dinosaurian group that radiated during the Triassic.
During this time the group underwent major changes in body plan, including the acquisition …

Repeated evolution of divergent modes of herbivory in non-avian dinosaurs

DJ Button, LE Zanno - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Summary The importance of adaptation [1–4] versus organizational constraints [5–7] in
shaping common macroevolutionary trends remains unclear [8]. The fossil record is key to …