The postcranial skeleton of Monolophosaurus jiangi (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Middle Jurassic of Xinjiang, China, and a review of Middle Jurassic Chinese theropods [PDF]
, 2010 The Middle Jurassic was a critical time in the evolution of theropod dinosaurs, highlighted by the origination and radiation of the large-bodied and morphologically diverse Tetanurae.
ZHAO XI-JIN +34 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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Variability in biological diversity of dinosaurs and types of their diet [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 Biodiversity analysis underlies macroevolutionary studies and allows to identify mass extinctions. Numerous studies of mass extinctions show that geological factors play a central role in determining the diversity dynamics. The late Cretaceous extinction
Egorov Pavel +4 more
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Histological evidence for a supraspinous ligament in sauropod dinosaurs [PDF]
, 2015 Supraspinous ossified rods have been reported in the sacra of some derived sauropod dinosaurs. Although different hypotheses have been proposed to explain the origin ofthis structure, histological evidence has never been provided to support or reject any
Abdalla O +37 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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A new vertebrate fauna from the Lower Cretaceous Holly Creek Formation of the Trinity Group, southwest Arkansas, USA [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 We present a previously discovered but undescribed late Early Cretaceous vertebrate fauna from the Holly Creek Formation of the Trinity Group in Arkansas.
Celina A. Suarez +6 more
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Novel neuroanatomical integration and scaling define avian brain shape evolution and development
eLife, 2021 How do large and unique brains evolve? Historically, comparative neuroanatomical studies have attributed the evolutionary genesis of highly encephalized brains to deviations along, as well as from, conserved scaling relationships among brain regions ...
Akinobu Watanabe +4 more
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New Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) sauropod remains from the Valtos Formation, Isle of Skye, Scotland [PDF]
, 2016 The discovery of a sauropod tooth and a single sauropod footprint from the Valtos Formation supplements our knowledge of these dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic of the Isle of Skye.
Clark, Neil D.L., Gavin, Patrick
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