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New evidence for the earliest ornithischian dinosaurs from Asia [PDF]

iScience
Summary: The Early Jurassic ornithischian dinosaurs in Laurasia are dominated by armored dinosaurs, with other early ornithischian groups being rare. Here, a new taxon, Archaeocursor asiaticus gen. et sp.
Xi Yao, Qi Zhao, Tingcong Ren, Guangbiao Wei, Xing Xu   +4 more
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A diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate tracksite from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia [PDF]

PeerJ, 2021
The Upper Cretaceous ‘upper’ Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia is world famous for hosting Dinosaur Stampede National Monument at Lark Quarry Conservation Park, a somewhat controversial tracksite that preserves thousands of tridactyl dinosaur ...
Stephen F. Poropat, Matt A. White, Tim Ziegler, Adele H. Pentland, Samantha L. Rigby, Ruairidh J. Duncan, Trish Sloan, David A. Elliott   +7 more
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Dinosaur Tracksites from the Maestrazgo UNESCO Global Geopark (Teruel, Spain) [PDF]

Geoconservation Research, 2021
Numerous Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous tracksites are found in the Maestrazgo UNESCO Global Geopark; sauropod and ornithopod tracks are abundant and there are some rare stegosaurians and theropods.
Luis Alcalá, Alberto Cobos
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Meeting Island Dwarfs and Giants of the Cretaceous – The Hațeg Country UNESCO Global Geopark, Romania [PDF]

Geoconservation Research, 2021
We review here key geological heritage elements of the Hațeg Country UNESCO Global Geopark (Southern Carpathians, western Romania) represented by latest Cretaceous continental vertebrate fossils and the sedimentary rocks enclosing them.
Zoltán Csiki-Sava, Alexandru Andrășanu   +1 more
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Sauropod dinosaur teeth from the lower Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia and the global record of early titanosauriforms

Royal Society Open Science, 2022
The Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, has produced several partial sauropod skeletons, but cranial remains—including teeth—remain rare.
Stephen F. Poropat, Timothy G. Frauenfelder, Philip D. Mannion, Samantha L. Rigby, Adele H. Pentland, Trish Sloan, David A. Elliott   +6 more
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New theropod remains and implications for megaraptorid diversity in the Winton Formation (lower Upper Cretaceous), Queensland, Australia [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2020
The holotype specimen of the megaraptorid Australovenator wintonensis, from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation (Rolling Downs Group, Eromanga Basin) of central Queensland, is the most complete non-avian theropod found in Australia to date.
Matt A. White, Phil R. Bell, Stephen F. Poropat, Adele H. Pentland, Samantha L. Rigby, Alex G. Cook, Trish Sloan, David A. Elliott   +7 more
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The dentary of Australovenator wintonensis (Theropoda, Megaraptoridae); implications for megaraptorid dentition [PDF]

PeerJ, 2015
Megaraptorid theropods were an enigmatic group of medium-sized predatory dinosaurs, infamous for the hypertrophied claw on the first manual digit. Megaraptorid dentition is largely restricted to isolated teeth found in association with skeletal parts ...
Matt A. White, Phil R. Bell, Alex G. Cook, Stephen F. Poropat, David A. Elliott   +4 more
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A nearly complete skull of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Australia and implications for the early evolution of titanosaurs

Royal Society Open Science, 2023
Titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs were diverse and abundant throughout the Cretaceous, with a global distribution. However, few titanosaurian taxa are represented by multiple skeletons, let alone skulls.
Stephen F. Poropat, Philip D. Mannion, Samantha L. Rigby, Ruairidh J. Duncan, Adele H. Pentland, Joseph J. Bevitt, Trish Sloan, David A. Elliott   +7 more
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The pes of Australovenator wintonensis (Theropoda: Megaraptoridae): analysis of the pedal range of motion and biological restoration [PDF]

PeerJ, 2016
The pedal range of motion in Australovenator wintonensis is investigated to determine what influence soft tissue had on range of motion in the foot. Fortunately, the theropod pes shares a close morphology with extant large cursorial birds.
Matt A. White, Alex G. Cook, Ada J. Klinkhamer, David A. Elliott   +3 more
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Topology-Based Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Delicate Skeletal Fossil Remains and the Quantification of Their Taphonomic Deformation

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Taphonomic and diagenetic processes inevitably distort the original skeletal morphology of fossil vertebrate remains. Key aspects of palaeobiological datasets may be directly impacted by such morphological deformation, such as taxonomic diagnoses and ...
Oliver E. Demuth, Oliver E. Demuth, Oliver E. Demuth, Juan Benito, Juan Benito, Emanuel Tschopp, Emanuel Tschopp, Emanuel Tschopp, Stephan Lautenschlager, Heinrich Mallison, Heinrich Mallison, Niklaus Heeb, Daniel J. Field, Daniel J. Field   +13 more
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