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 …

The L ate J urassic to E arly C retaceous interval represents a time of environmental
upheaval and cataclysmic events, combined with disruptions to terrestrial and marine …

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

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 Cretaceous was a time of tremendous global change, as the final stages
of the Age of Dinosaurs were shaped by climate and sea level fluctuations and witness to …

Background Australia's dinosaurian fossil record is exceptionally poor compared to that of
other similar-sized continents. Most taxa are known from fragmentary isolated remains with …

Australian dinosaurs have played a rare but controversial role in the debate surrounding the
effect of Gondwanan break-up on Cretaceous dinosaur distribution. Major spatiotemporal …

Euhelopus zdanskyi was the first dinosaur described from China. Both traditional and
modern cladistic assessments have found support for an endemic clade of Chinese …

The fossil record is our only direct means for evaluating shifts in biodiversity through Earth's
history. However, analyses of fossil marine invertebrates have demonstrated that geological …

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 …