The herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods were the
largest terrestrial animals ever, surpassing the largest herbivorous mammals by an order of …

Pneumatic (air‐filled) postcranial bones are unique to birds among extant tetrapods.
Unambiguous skeletal correlates of postcranial pneumaticity first appeared in the Late …

The geological and paleoenvironmental setting and the vertebrate taxonomy of the
fossiliferous, Cenomanian-age deltaic sediments in eastern Morocco, generally referred to …

Sauropoda is among the most diverse and widespread dinosaurlineages, having attained a
near‐global distribution by the MiddleJurassic that was built on throughout the Cretaceous …

Titanosauriforms represent a diverse and globally distributed clade of neosauropod
dinosaurs, but their inter-relationships remain poorly understood. Here we redescribe …

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 …

Background The axial skeleton of extinct saurischian dinosaurs (ie, theropods,
sauropodomorphs), like living birds, was pneumatized by epithelial outpocketings of the …

Titanosauriformes was a globally distributed, long-lived clade of dinosaurs that contains
both the largest and smallest known sauropods. These common and diverse …

Fossils of the Early Cretaceous dinosaur, Nigersaurus taqueti, document for the first time the
cranial anatomy of a rebbachisaurid sauropod. Its extreme adaptations for herbivory at …

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