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PLoS ONE, 2023 Intensifying macrovertebrate reconnaissance together with refined age-dating of mid-Cretaceous assemblages in recent decades is producing a more nuanced understanding of the impact of the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum on terrestrial ecosystems.
Lindsay E. Zanno +4 more
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Dinosaur diversification rates were not in decline prior to the K-Pg boundary [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Determining the tempo and mode of non-avian dinosaur extinction is one of the most contentious issues in palaeobiology. Extensive disagreements remain over whether their extinction was catastrophic and geologically instantaneous or the culmination of ...
Joseph A. Bonsor +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Ornithischian dinosaurs exhibited a diversity of ecologies, locomotory modes, and social structures, making them an ideal clade in which to study the evolution of neuroanatomy and behaviour. Here, we present a 3D digital reconstruction of the endocranial
David J. Button, Lindsay E. Zanno
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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 Numerous dromaeosaurid taxa recovered from the Upper Cretaceous strata of the Gobi Desert raise questions over niche partitioning among closely related species.
ŁUKASZ CZEPIŃSKI
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Microstructural and crystallographic evolution of palaeognath (Aves) eggshells
eLife, 2023 The avian palaeognath phylogeny has been recently revised significantly due to the advancement of genome-wide comparative analyses and provides the opportunity to trace the evolution of the microstructure and crystallography of modern dinosaur eggshells.
Seung Choi +5 more
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Fossil Record, 2023 The Rhabdodontidae was one of the most important dinosaur groups inhabiting the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago. Currently, the clade comprises nine species within six genera, which have been found in southern France, northern Spain, eastern Austria,
Felix J. Augustin +2 more
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Iridescent plumage in a juvenile dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 Colour reconstructions have provided new insights into the lives of dinosaurs and other extinct animals, by predicting colouration patterns from fossilised pigment-bearing organelles called melanosomes.
ANGUS D. CROUDACE +4 more
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Multiple optimality criteria support Ornithoscelida [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 A recent study of early dinosaur evolution using equal-weights parsimony recovered a scheme of dinosaur interrelationships and classification that differed from historical consensus in a single, but significant, respect; Ornithischia and Saurischia were ...
Luke A. Parry +2 more
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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 We describe a microvertebrate assemblage from the J&M site, of the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) Williams Fork Formation. Breakdown of fossil bearing matrix was achieved with the use of heated dimethyl sulfoxide.
NICKOLAS A. BRAND +5 more
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Ontogeny and miniaturization of Alvarezsauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda)
Biological Communications, 2023 The ontogenetic status of the known specimens of alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaurs is revised. We present histological data that the holotype of Parvicursor remotus from the Upper Cretaceous Barungoyot Formation of Mongolia is not an adult individual, as ...
Alexander Averianov +2 more
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