Palaeontology, Volume 67, Issue 1, January/February 2024.Abstract Adaptation to specialist ecological niches is a key innovation that has contributed to the evolutionary success of many vertebrate clades, underpinning the acquisition of diverse skull morphologies. Dinosaurs, which dominated Mesozoic terrestrial faunas, acquired herbivory multiple times, and evolution of these herbivorous adaptations is ...
Callum Kunz, Manabu Sakamoto
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Body size distribution of the dinosaurs. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The distribution of species body size is critically important for determining resource use within a group or clade. It is widely known that non-avian dinosaurs were the largest creatures to roam the Earth.
Eoin J O'Gorman, David W E Hone
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Digital reconstruction of the mandible of an adult Lesothosaurus diagnosticus with insight into the tooth replacement process and diet [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Fragmentary caudal ends of the left and right mandible assigned to Lesothosaurus diagnosticus, an early ornithischian, was recently discovered in the continental red bed succession of the upper Elliot Formation (Lower Jurassic) at Likhoele Mountain ...
Lara Sciscio +4 more
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, 2003 Ornithischia Seeley, 1887 Included taxa. Lesothosaurus, Technosaurus, Pisanosaurus, Thyreophora, Ornithopoda, and Marginocephalia, and all dinosaurs that are more closely related to these taxa than to saurischians. Temporal range. Camian-Maastrichtian. Distribution. Global. Diagnosis.
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First Valanginian Polacanthus foxii (Dinosauria, Ankylosauria) from England, from the Lower Cretaceous of Bexhill, Sussex [PDF]
, 2014 A new partial skeleton of the armoured ornithischian dinosaur Polacanthus found in the Wadhurst Clay Formation (Valanginian stage) of Bexhill, Sussex is the oldest recorded occurrence of this taxon.
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Late Cretaceous nodosaurids (Ankylosauria: Ornithischia) from Mexico
Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, 2014 Restos de anquilosaurios nodosáuridos del Cretácico Superior de México son descritos aquí. Las muestras proceden de la Formación El Gallo de Baja California, de las formaciones Pen y Aguja del noroeste de Coahuila, y de la Formación Cerro del Pueblo ...
Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva +2 more
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Notice of nodosaur (Dinosauria, Ankylosauria) remains from the mid-Cretaceous of Cambridge, England, with comments on cervical half-ring armour [PDF]
, 2014 Three pieces from cervical half-rings of an immature nodosaur, part of a nodosaurid presacral rod and some post-cranial osteoderms from the Cretaceous of Cambridge were studied at the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton, UK.
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The Titanosaur Sauropods from the late Campanian–early Maastrichtian Allen Formation of Salitral Moreno, Río Negro, Argentina [PDF]
, 2013 The dinosaur record of the Salitral Moreno locality (Río Negro Province, Argentina) is characterized by a high diversity of herbivore taxa, among them hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs, and titanosaur sauropods, but carnivores are rare, consisting of only a few ...
Garcia, Rodolfo Andres +1 more
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The phylogeny of basal archosaurs [PDF]
, 1994 Archosaur systematics has received much attention from the mid 1970s and several influential works on this topic have emerged. As discrepancy exists among proposed phylogenies, some of the most important of the papers in question are assessed here ...
Juul, Lars
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Postcranial remains of Fabrosauridae (Reptilia: Ornithischia) from the Stormberg of southern Africa [PDF]
, 1984 The postcranial skeletons of three fabrosaurids from the upper Elliot Formation "Red Beds" of the Stormberg Group in southern Africa are described. The material demonstrates details of fabrosaurid anatomy previously unknown, particularly a short, deep ...
Santa Luca, A. P.
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