Osteology of the alvarezsauroid Linhenykus monodactylus from the Upper Cretaceous Wulansuhai Formation of Inner Mongolia, China, and comments on alvarezsauroid biogeography [PDF]
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Choiniere, J +10 more
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Novos registros de vertebrados fósseis do cretáceo superior na formação adamantina (grupo Bauru), sudeste do Brasil [PDF]
, 2014 The Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group), between Lucélia and Irapuru municipalities (northwestern São Paulo State, southeastern Brazil), has been in the last years a very important area for collecting Upper Cretaceous fossil vertebrates.
Bertini, Reinaldo José +1 more
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The Slothful Claw: Osteology and Taphonomy of \u3cem\u3eNothronychus mckinleyi\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eN. graffami\u3c/em\u3e (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and Anatomical Considerations for Derived Therizinosaurids [PDF]
, 2015 Nothronychus was the first definitive therizinosaurian discovered in North America and currently represents the most specialized North American therizinosaurian genus. It is known from two species, No.
Dodson, Peter +3 more
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The Impact of Unstable Taxa in Coelurosaurian Phylogeny and Resampling Support Measures for Parsimony Analyses [PDF]
, 2020 Paleontological datasets often have large amounts of missing entries that result in multiple mostparsimonious trees. Highly incomplete and conflictive taxa produce a collapsed strict consensus andseveral methods have been developed for identifying these ...
Goloboff, Pablo Augusto, Pol, Diego
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Reevaluating Maniraptoran Pelvic Musculature: Cursoriality, Convergence, and Caudal Decoupling [PDF]
, 2019 Maniraptora is a clade of non-avian theropod dinosaurs comprising avians and several “bird-like” groups with semilunate wrist bones. Maniraptorans tend to exhibit anterior migration in centre of mass, enlargement of the pectoral region, and progressive ...
Rhodes, Matthew M
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Origin of the propatagium in non-avian dinosaurs. [PDF]
Zoological Lett, 2023 Uno Y, Hirasawa T.
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Pleistocene reptile swim traces confirmed from South Africa’s Cape south coast [PDF]
, 2022 Large Pleistocene reptile tracks and traces were described from the Cape south coast of South Africa in 2020, including ‘probable swim traces’. These trace fossils were found on loose slabs and blocks of the Klein Brak Formation.
Helm, Charles W., Lockley, Martin G.
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Oviraptorosauria: Morphology, Phylogeny, and Endocranial Evolution [PDF]
, 2011 Oviraptorosauria, an extinct lineage of coelurosaurian dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Asia and North America, includes some of the most morphologically distinctive theropod taxa yet known.
Balanoff, Amy
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Paravian phylogeny and the dinosaur-bird transition: An overview [PDF]
, 2019 Recent years witnessed the discovery of a great diversity of early birds as well as closely related non-avian theropods, which modified previous conceptions about the origin of birds and their flight. We here present a review of the taxonomic composition
Agnolin, Federico +4 more
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The Evolution of Diversity [PDF]
, 2017 Since the beginning of time, the pre-biological and the biological world have seen a steady increase in complexity of form and function based on a process of combination and re-combination.
Beckley, Colin, Bonillas, Ute
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