Anatomical description and digital reconstruction of the skull of Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from China. [PDF]
PLoS ONEOrnithopod dinosaurs appeared during the Middle Jurassic, but it was in the Lower Cretaceous they started their successful evolutionary history. Different phylogenies describing the evolutionary relationships of Ornithopoda are mostly based on cranial ...
Filippo Bertozzo +3 more
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The Venice specimen of Ouranosaurus nigeriensis (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Ouranosaurus nigeriensis is an iconic African dinosaur taxon that has been described on the basis of two nearly complete skeletons from the Lower Cretaceous Gadoufaoua locality of the Ténéré desert in Niger. The entire holotype and a few bones attributed
Filippo Bertozzo +2 more
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The world’s oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceThe cerapodan dinosaurs were an ornithischian clade that achieved a global distribution in the Cretaceous Period. The ichnological record suggests that these dinosaurs had evolved by the Middle Jurassic, but only a single cerapodan body fossil, an ...
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Multi-proxy dentition analyses reveal niche partitioning between sympatric herbivorous dinosaurs [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Dentitions of the sympatric herbivorous dinosaurs Hungarosaurus (Ankylosauria, Nodosauridae) and Mochlodon (Ornithopoda, Rhabdodontidae) (Santonian, Hungary) were analysed to investigate their dietary ecology, using several complementary methods ...
Attila Ősi +9 more
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A new basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 A new basal ornithopod dinosaur, based on two nearly complete articulated skeletons, is reported from the Lujiatun Beds (Yixian Fm, Lower Cretaceous) of western Liaoning Province (China).
Yuqing Yang +3 more
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A new iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 We describe a new iguanodontian ornithopod, Choyrodon barsboldi gen. et sp. nov. from the Albian-aged Khuren Dukh Formation of Mongolia based on several partial skeletons interpreted to represent a subadult growth stage based on osteohistological ...
Terry A. Gates +4 more
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Tooth replacement in the early-diverging neornithischian Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis and implications for dental evolution and herbivorous adaptation in Ornithischia [PDF]
BMC Ecology and EvolutionBackground Tooth replacement patterns of early-diverging ornithischians, which are important for understanding the evolution of the highly specialized dental systems in hadrosaurid and ceratopsid dinosaurs, are poorly known.
Jinfeng Hu +3 more
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The systematic relationships and biogeographic history of ornithischian dinosaurs [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 The systematic relationships of taxa traditionally referred to as ‘basal ornithopods’ or ‘hypsilophodontids’ remain poorly resolved since it was discovered that these taxa are not a monophyletic group, but rather a paraphyletic set of neornithischian ...
Clint A. Boyd
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Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 During the Early Cretaceous, dinosaur communities of the Australian-Antarctic rift system (Eumeralla and Wonthaggi formations) cropping out in Victoria were apparently dominated by a diverse small-bodied ‘basal ornithopod’ fauna.
Phil R. Bell +3 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 +7 more
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