Patterns of variation in fleshy diaspore size and abundance from Late Triassic–Oligocene
Biological Reviews, Volume 99, Issue 2, Page 430-457, April 2024.ABSTRACT Vertebrate‐mediated seed dispersal is a common attribute of many living plants, and variation in the size and abundance of fleshy diaspores is influenced by regional climate and by the nature of vertebrate seed dispersers among present‐day floras.
Duhita Naware, Roger Benson
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Journal of Anatomy, Volume 244, Issue 4, Page 557-593, April 2024.Piatnitzkysauridae were Jurassic theropods that represented one of the earliest lineages to have evolved moderate body size. Here, we reconstructed the hindlimb musculature of this clade, allowing a more complete understanding of myological evolution in theropod pelvic appendages. Abstract Piatnitzkysauridae were Jurassic theropods that represented the
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Baraminological Analysis of Jurassic and Cretaceous Avialae [PDF]
, 2020 The baraminic status of Jurassic and Cretaceous Avialae was evaluated using statistical baraminology. Baraminic distance correlation (BDC) and three dimensional multidimensional scaling (MDS) was applied to six previously published character matrices ...
Garner, Paul A. +2 more
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The Origin of the Modern Bird Skull, with a Focus on the Evolution and Embryonic Development of Musculoskeletal Structures in the Temporal and Otic Regions [PDF]
, 2022 Compared with their Mesozoic theropod ancestors, extant birds (Aves) exhibit extensively modified skulls and associated soft tissue, with massively enlarged brains and reduced temporal musculature, an inner ear with dorsally elongated semicircular canals,
Hanson, Michael
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The Impact of Unstable Taxa in Coelurosaurian Phylogeny and Resampling Support Measures for Parsimony Analyses [PDF]
, 2020 Paleontological datasets often have large amounts of missing entries that result in multiple mostparsimonious trees. Highly incomplete and conflictive taxa produce a collapsed strict consensus andseveral methods have been developed for identifying these ...
Goloboff, Pablo Augusto, Pol, Diego
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Enlargement of sternum traits facilitated the evolution of powered flight in birds [PDF]
An enlarged sternum with a prominent keel is a central feature of the flight apparatus of modern birds. However, sterna of near-bird dinosaurs (Pennaraptora) and early avialans are either substantially different from those of living birds or absent ...
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Osteology of the alvarezsauroid Linhenykus monodactylus from the Upper Cretaceous Wulansuhai Formation of Inner Mongolia, China, and comments on alvarezsauroid biogeography [PDF]
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Complete Ichthyornis skull illuminates mosaic assembly of the avian head [PDF]
, 2018 The skull of living birds is greatly modified from the condition found in their dinosaurian antecedents. Bird skulls have an enlarged, toothless premaxillary beak and an intricate kinetic system that includes a mobile palate and jaw suspensorium.
A Elzanowski +43 more
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Decoupling body shape and mass distribution in birds and their dinosaurian ancestors. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2023 Macaulay S +7 more
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