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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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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New titanosauriform (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) specimens from the Upper Cretaceous Daijiaping Formation of southern China [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs were once considered rare in the Upper Cretaceous of Asia, but a number of titanosauriforms from this stratigraphic interval have been discovered in China in recent years.
Fenglu Han +5 more
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A new eusauropod (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the Middle Jurassic of Gansu, China [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSauropod dinosaurs were gigantic quadrupedal herbivores. They range from Early Jurassic to Late Cretaceous and have been found on all continents. The rich sauropod faunas in the Middle and Late Jurassic of China are mainly from southern or western China.
Ning Li +4 more
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Palaeobiodiversity of Sauropoda in the Blesa Formation (Lower Cretaceous) at northeast Spain
Journal of Iberian Geology, 2023 La Formación Blesa es una de las formaciones con mayor biodiversidad de vertebrados del Barremiense de la península Ibérica. En el yacimiento de La Cantalera-1, donde se han identificado más de 32 taxones de vertebrados, los únicos restos de saurópodos ...
E. Medrano-Aguado +2 more
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A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Diplodocidae are among the best known sauropod dinosaurs. Several species were described in the late 1800s or early 1900s from the Morrison Formation of North America.
Emanuel Tschopp +2 more
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A path to gigantism: Three-dimensional study of the sauropodomorph limb long bone shape variation in the context of the emergence of the sauropod bauplan. [PDF]
J Anat, 2022 Our study investigates the limb long bone shape variation of a large sample of sauropodomorph dinosaurs in the context of the emergence of the sauropod bauplan. We highlight a differential emergence of sauropod‐related features, that appear abruptly in the forelimb bones and more gradually in the hindlimb ones.
Lefebvre R +4 more
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A new mamenchisaurid from the Upper Jurassic Suining Formation of the Sichuan Basin in China and its implication on sauropod gigantism [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe Sichuan Basin has yielded abundant sauropod dinosaurs from the Middle-Late Jurassic, and Mamenchisauridae had predominated the dinosaur faunae during the Late Jurassic in the Sichuan Basin.
Xuefang Wei +12 more
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Palaeobiology and osteohistology of South African sauropodomorph dinosaurs. [PDF]
J AnatWe found that the transitionary Sauropodiformes show both the traits of rapid growth of derived Sauropoda as well as interrupted growth of early branching Sauropodomorpha. There appears to be much more variation in growth dynamics of Sauropodiformes than initially thought.
Toefy FY, Krupandan E, Chinsamy A.
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Inside a duck-billed dinosaur: Vertebral bone microstructure of Huallasaurus (Hadrosauridae), Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia. [PDF]
Anat Rec (Hoboken)Abstract Dinosaurs evolved a unique respiratory system with air sacs that contributed to their evolutionary success. Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity (PSP) has been used to infer the presence of air sac systems in some fossil archosaurs. While unambiguous evidence of PSP is well documented in pterosaurs and post‐Carnian saurischians, it remains absent
Aureliano T +3 more
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