A possible brachiosaurid (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the mid-Cretaceous of northeastern China [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Brachiosauridae is a lineage of titanosauriform sauropods that includes some of the most iconic non-avian dinosaurs. Undisputed brachiosaurid fossils are known from the Late Jurassic through the Early Cretaceous of North America, Africa, and Europe, but ...
Chun-Chi Liao +9 more
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Histological evidence for a supraspinous ligament in sauropod dinosaurs [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Supraspinous ossified rods have been reported in the sacra of some derived sauropod dinosaurs. Although different hypotheses have been proposed to explain the origin of this structure, histological evidence has never been provided to support or reject ...
Ignacio A. Cerda +3 more
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Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Skeletal pneumaticity is found in the presacral vertebrae of most sauropod dinosaurs, but pneumaticity is much less common in the vertebrae of the tail.
Mathew J Wedel, Michael P Taylor
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Revision of Amygdalodon patagonicus Cabrera, 1947 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2003 The type material of the oldest known sauropod dinosaur from South America, Amygdalodon patagonicus, from the Cerro Carnerero Formation (Toarcian-Bajocian) of Chubut province. Argentina, is reviewed.
O. W. M. Rauhut
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Several occurrences of osteomyelitis in dinosaurs from a site in the Bauru Group, Cretaceous of Southeast Brazil. [PDF]
Anat Rec (Hoboken)Abstract This study investigates the occurrence of osteomyelitis in non‐avian dinosaurs, focusing on the Ibirá locality, a site with a high incidence of this pathological condition. We analyzed six new osteopathic sauropod specimens from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil.
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New information on Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs provides support for the independent acquisition of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in avemetatarsalian lineages. [PDF]
J AnatPSP in early‐branching sauropodomorphs probably evolved first in the neural arches of the posterior cervical vertebrae, expanding anteriorly and posteriorly along the vertebral column. The distribution of PSP in Late Triassic early‐branching sauropodomorphs does not appear to be correlated with body size.
Beeston SL +5 more
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A new sauropod dinosaur hindlimb from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight, UK [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceThe Barremian-aged Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, UK, offers a globally significant glimpse into the sauropod dinosaur faunas of the early Cretaceous. These deposits have yielded specimens of several neosauropod lineages, such as rebbachisaurids,
Robert R. Higgins +3 more
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Ecomorphospace occupation of large herbivorous dinosaurs from Late Jurassic through to Late Cretaceous time in North America [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Following the Late Jurassic, megaherbivore communities in North America undergo a dramatic turnover in faunal composition: sauropods decline to the point of becoming relatively minor components of ecosystems, stegosaurs become extinct, and hadrosaurids ...
Taia Wyenberg-Henzler
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PLoS ONE, 2012 BackgroundLong bone histology of the most derived Sauropoda, the Titanosauria suggests that titanosaurian long bone histology differs from the uniform bone histology of basal Sauropoda.
Nicole Klein +2 more
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Posture and mechanics of the forelimbs of Brachiosaurus brancai (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) [PDF]
Fossil Record, 1999 The posture and mechanics of the forelimbs of Brachiosaurus brancai were analysed with the help of biomechanical models. Peak forces in the joints due to acceleration of the fraction of body weight carried on the shoulder joints are critical in models ...
A. Christian, W.-D. Heinrich, W. Golder
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