Body size as a driver of scavenging in theropod dinosaurs [PDF]
This work was funded by the Earth and Natural Sciences Doctoral Studies Programme and the Higher Education Authority through the Programme for Research at Third Level Institutions, Cycle 5 (PRTLI‐5), and cofunded by the European Regional Development Fund
Healy, Kevin +3 more
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Preservação Excepcional de Biomateriais Não Mineralizados em Fósseis do Clado Avialae [PDF]
Milhares de fósseis de aves primitivas e diversificadasda Era Mesozoica e Cenozoica têm sido descobertos ao redor do mundo. Destes, centenas de estudos encontraram preservação excepcional de biomateriais mineralizados, permitindo ampliar o conhecimento ...
Alves, Everton Fernando +1 more
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A survey of dinosaur diversity by clade, age, place of discovery and year of description [PDF]
Dinosaur diversity is analyzed in terms of the number of valid genera within each major clade, Mesozoic age, place of discovery and year of description. Aves (Archaeopteryx + Neornithes) is excluded. Nomina nuda and nomina dubia are not counted.
Taylor, Michael
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The impact of poor sampling of polymorphism on cladistic analysis
Abstract Despite its ubiquity in the natural world, polymorphism is commonly disregarded or poorly sampled in phylogenetic analyses due to deliberate sampling strategy, inadequate sampling effort and limited specimen availability. Poor sampling of intraspecific variation engenders differential sampling of morphs within polymorphic species, which could ...
Akinobu Watanabe
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Behaviors for Which Deinonychosaurs Used Their Feet [PDF]
This paper seeks to show for what purpose deinonychosaurs used their feet. Fowler et al., (2011) showed that D. antirrhopus’s feet were closest in function to accipitrids, as they found it was more built for grasping prey than running.
King, Alexander
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Comments on the morphology of basal paravian shoulder girdle: New data based on unenlagiid Theropods and Paleognath birds [PDF]
In 1976 John Ostrom published an enlightening paper about the anatomical transformations in the shoulder girdle and forelimb elements along the origin of birds.
Agnolin, Federico +5 more
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Baraminological Analysis of Jurassic and Cretaceous Avialae [PDF]
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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Anatomía comparada de los terópodos paravianos Unenlagiidae y sus implicancias en el origen de las aves [PDF]
Paraves es el clado de dinosaurios que cuenta con mayor número de especies, ya que por un lado agrupa a terópodos no-avianos extintos como Troodon y Velociraptor, y por otro lado a las aves, únicos dinosaurios vivientes (Avialae: Dinosauria, Gauthier ...
Motta, Matías Javier
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We studied an assemblage of teeth from Laje do Coringa, São Luís-Grajaú Basin, Alcântara Formation, State of Maranhão, Brazil. The collection sites are dated as Albian–Cenomanian. Ten teeth were submitted to morphological analysis in Scanning Electron Microscopy, with the goal of identifying materials likely associated with unenlagiine theropod ...
Letizio, Luiz Antonio +2 more
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ESTUDOS BIOMECÂNICOS EM MANIRAPTORIFORMES PLANADORES: Biomechanical investigations on glider Maniraptoriformes [PDF]
Many adaptations are necessary to a terrestrial cursorial animal to develop full flying ability. The capability of glide, even being energetically simpler, it still demands a series of morphological adaptations to develop sustainment generative ...
BERTINI, Reinaldo José +1 more
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