Morphology forms the most fundamental level of data in vertebrate palaeontology because it
is through interpretations of morphology that taxa are identified, creating the basis for broad …

Identification of the ontogenetic status of an extinct organism is complex, and yet this
underpins major areas of research, from taxonomy and systematics to ecology and …

Diplodocidae are among the best known sauropod dinosaurs. Several species were
described in the late 1800s or early 1900s from the Morrison Formation of North America …

Abstract The Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, southeastern Africa, records a
rich sauropod fauna, including the diplodocoids Dicraeosaurus and Tornieria, and the …

In the dusk of the Mesozoic, advanced duck-billed dinosaurs (Hadrosauridae) were so
successful that they likely outcompeted other herbivores, contributing to declines in dinosaur …

We describe a new small-bodied coelophysoid theropod dinosaur, Pendraig milnerae gen.
et sp. nov, from the Late Triassic fissure fill deposits of Pant-y-ffynnon in southern Wales. The …

Competing views exist on the behaviour and lifestyle of pterosaurs during the earliest
phases of life. A 'flap-early'model proposes that hatchlings were capable of independent life …

The Eocene history of cetacean evolution is now represented by the expansive fossil record
of archaeocetes elucidating major morphofunctional shifts relating to the land to sea …

Background Brachylophosaurini is a clade of hadrosaurine dinosaurs currently known from
the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of North America. Its members include: Acristavus …

The placement of over 50 skulls of the well-known horned dinosaur Triceratops within a
stratigraphic framework for the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation (HCF) of Montana …