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The Anatomical Record, Volume 307, Issue 12, Page 3717-3781, December 2024.Abstract Thescelosaurines are a group of early diverging, ornithischian dinosaurs notable for their conservative bauplans and mosaic of primitive features. Although abundant within the latest Cretaceous ecosystems of North America, their record is poor to absent in earlier assemblages, leaving a large gap in our understanding of their evolution ...
Haviv M. Avrahami +3 more
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Cautionary tales on the use of proxies to estimate body size and form of extinct animals
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2024.Reconstructing the body size and form of extinct animals is of vital importance to our understanding of macroevolution and palaeontology. This is often done using anatomical proxies where extinct species are known only from fragmentary remains. However, there are many limitations influencing the selection of proxy taxa that are frequently overlooked ...
Joel H. Gayford +7 more
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Notes on the pelvic armor of European ankylosaurs (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) [PDF]
Cretaceous Research, 2017 Abstract The pelvic armor elements in the ankylosaurian material from the Upper Cretaceous of Iharkut, Hungary are described here. Among these, a new articulated hip region of a small bodied ankylosaur is referred here to cf. Struthiosaurus sp. It preserves, uniquely among Late Cretaceous European ankylosaurs, an in situ pelvic armor composed of ...
Attila Ősi +2 more
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Bone histology of Protoceratops andrewsi from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and its biological implications [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2018 Protoceratops andrewsi is one of the best known and abundant ornithischian dinosaurs from the Djadokhta Formation (Late Cretaceous, Mongolia) and a subject of many morphological studies.
Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik +1 more
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Standardizing fossil disparity metrics using sample coverage
Palaeontology, Volume 67, Issue 5, September/October 2024.Abstract Estimating past biodiversity using the fossil record is a central goal of palaeobiology. Because raw estimates of biodiversity are biased by variation in sampling intensity across time, space, environments and taxonomic groups, sampling standardization is routinely applied when estimating taxonomic diversity (e.g. species richness).
Menna Jones, Roger Close
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Insight on the anatomy, systematic relationships, and age of the Early Cretaceous ankylopollexian dinosaur Dakotadon lakotaensis [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Knowledge regarding the early evolution within the dinosaurian clade Ankylopollexia drastically increased over the past two decades, in part because of an increase in described taxa from the Early Cretaceous of North America. These advances motivated the
Clint A. Boyd, Darrin C. Pagnac
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The Anatomical Record, Volume 307, Issue 4, Page 1175-1238, April 2024.Abstract A vast array of pseudosuchian body plans evolved during the diversification of the group in the Triassic Period, but few can compare to the toothless, long‐necked, and bipedal shuvosaurids. Members of this clade possess theropod‐like character states mapped on top of more plesiomorphic pseudosuchian character states, complicating our ...
Sterling J. Nesbitt, Sankar Chatterjee
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New specimens of the basal ornithischian dinosaur Lesothosaurus diagnosticus Galton, 1978 from the Early Jurassic of South Africa [PDF]
, 2016 We describe new specimens of the basal ornithischian dinosaur Lesothosaurus diagnosticus Galton, 1978 collected from a bonebed in the Fouriesburg district of the Free State, South Africa.
Baron, MG +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 In this study, we use an exceptional skeleton of the pachycephalosaur Stegoceras validum (UALVP 2) to inform a comprehensive appendicular muscle reconstruction of the animal, with the goal of better understanding the functional morphology of the ...
Bryan R S Moore +5 more
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The Anatomical Record, Volume 307, Issue 4, Page 974-1000, April 2024.Abstract Our knowledge of the diversity and evolution of South American Triassic pseudosuchians has greatly improved in the past 15 years, due to new discoveries, but also to the revision of several historically important specimens. One of the earliest descriptions of pseudosuchians from the Triassic of Brazil stems from the classic work of Huene from ...
Julia B. Desojo, Oliver W. M. Rauhut
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