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A ceratopsid-dominated tracksite from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park (Alberta, Canada) are renowned for the exceptional abundance and diversity of Campanian-aged vertebrate body fossils, especially dinosaurs.
Phil R Bell +7 more
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A transitional species of Daspletosaurus Russell, 1970 from the Judith River Formation of eastern Montana [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Here we describe a new derived tyrannosaurine, Daspletosaurus wilsoni sp. nov., from Judithian strata (~76.5 Ma) intermediate in age between either of the previously described species of this genus. D.
Elías A. Warshaw, Denver W. Fowler
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Transitional evolutionary forms in chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaurs: evidence from the Campanian of New Mexico [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Three new chasmosaurines from the Kirtland Formation (~75.0–73.4 Ma), New Mexico, form morphological and stratigraphic intermediates between Pentaceratops (~74.7–75 Ma, Fruitland Formation, New Mexico) and Anchiceratops (~72–71 Ma, Horseshoe Canyon ...
Denver W. Fowler +1 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Ornithomimosauria consists of the ostrich-mimic dinosaurs, most of which showing cursorial adaptations, that often exhibit features indicative of herbivory.
Soki Hattori +5 more
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Case study of the convergent evolution in the color patterns in the freshwater bivalves
Scientific Reports, 2022 The class Bivalvia (phylum Mollusca) is one of the most successful at survival groups of animals with diverse color patterns on their shells, and they are occasionally preserved in the fossil record as residual color patterns.
Kaito Asato +2 more
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Background Dinosaurs dominated terrestrial environments for over 100 million years due in part to innovative feeding strategies. Although a range of dental adaptations was present in Late Jurassic dinosaurs, it is unclear whether dinosaur ecosystems ...
Keegan M. Melstrom +2 more
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Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Trackways provide essential data on the biogeographic distribution, locomotion and behaviour of dinosaurs. Cretaceous dinosaur trackways are abundant in the Americas, Europe, North Africa and East Asia, but are less well documented in Central Asia ...
Joseph T. Flannery-Sutherland +10 more
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Neurovascular anatomy of dwarf dinosaur implies precociality in sauropods
eLife, 2022 Macronaria, a group of mostly colossal sauropod dinosaurs, comprised the largest terrestrial vertebrates of Earth’s history. However, some of the smallest sauropods belong to this group as well.
Marco Schade +4 more
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Spinosaurus is not an aquatic dinosaur
eLife, 2022 A predominantly fish-eating diet was envisioned for the sail-backed theropod dinosaur Spinosaurus aegyptiacus when its elongate jaws with subconical teeth were unearthed a century ago in Egypt.
Paul C Sereno +8 more
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A Unique Late Cretaceous dinosaur locality in the Bakony-Balaton Geopark of Hungary (Iharkút, Bakony Mts.) [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2021 Iharkút is a Late Cretaceous (Santonian) vertebrate-bearing locality in the Bakony Mountains of western Hungary, where productive and continuous paleontological excavations have been carried out in the last twenty years. Fieldwork resulted in a very rich
Gabor Botfalvai +3 more
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