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Archaeopteryx, which has often been considered the earliest avialan, is an iconic species, central to our understanding of bird origins. However, a recent parsimony-based phylogenetic study shifted its position from within Avialae, the group that ...
Xing Xu, D. Pol
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Functional morphology of the oviraptorosaurian and scansoriopterygid skull
Oviraptorosauria and Scansoriopterygidae are theropod clades that include members suggested to have partially or fully herbivorous diets. Obligate herbivory and carnivory are two ends of the spectrum of dietary habits along which it is unclear how diet ...
Waisum Ma +4 more
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Non avian theropod remains are scarce in Brazil and few specimens were referred to Maniraptora. Remains of a non-avian theropod dinosaur (DGM 930-R) from Vale do Rio do Peixe Formation, Bauru Group, found near the Santo Anastacio municipality, Sao Paulo ...
Rafael Delcourt, O. Grillo
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A reviewed anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of the Late Cretaceous theropod Unquillosaurus ceibali is presented. This taxon is represented by an isolated pubis from Los Blanquitos Formation (Maastrichtian), from the province of Salta, NW Argentina.
F. Novas, F. Agnolín
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Linking the evolution of body shape and locomotor biomechanics in bird-line archosaurs
Locomotion in living birds (Neornithes) has two remarkable features: feather-assisted flight, and the use of unusually crouched hindlimbs for bipedal support and movement.
V. Allen +3 more
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A Review of Dromaeosaurid Systematics and Paravian Phylogeny
Coelurosauria is the most diverse clade of theropod dinosaurs. Much of this diversity is present in Paraves—the clade of dinosaurs containing dromaeosaurids, troodontids, and avialans.
A. Turner, P. Makovicky, M. Norell
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A description with phylogenetic analyses is provided for Imperobator antarcticus, gen. et sp. nov., an early Maastrichtian, basal paravian (Theropoda; Maniraptora) from the Naze Peninsula, James Ross Island, Antarctica. In 2003, researchers uncovered the
Ricardo C. Ely, J. Case
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The phylogenetic affinities and morphological peculiarities of the bird-like dinosaur Borogovia gracilicrus from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. [PDF]
Cau A, Madzia D.
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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 ...
M. Motta
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Revisión de los Deinonychosauria (Dinosauria, Theropoda) de la Argentina : anatomía y filogenia
Deinonychosauria es un grupo de dinosaurios terópodos celurosaurios, con un dígito pedal II concapacidad de hiperextensión, entre otros rasgos. Los registros son mayormente del hemisferionorte, aunque también existen registros del hemisferio sur. Del Cretácico de Argentina proceden Buitreraptor gonzalezorum, Unenlagia comahuensis, Unenlagia paynemili ...
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