Ichnogeneric classification of sauropod trackways is determined using qualitative and quantitative descriptions of morphological parameters. More recently, the validity of several of these parameters has been called into question (e.g., trackway gauge ...
Lara Sciscio +4 more
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Notes on the axial skeleton of the titanosaur Bonitasaura salgadoi (Dinosauria-Sauropoda) [PDF]
Sauropod axial anatomy is particularly important in understanding morphological features and phylogenetic analyses. Spatial arrangement of zygapophyses and rib articulations, as well as their complex laminar development, help to recognize the relative ...
Pablo A. Gallina
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Forelimb muscle and joint actions in Archosauria: insights from Crocodylus johnstoni (Pseudosuchia) and Mussaurus patagonicus (Sauropodomorpha) [PDF]
Many of the major locomotor transitions during the evolution of Archosauria, the lineage including crocodiles and birds as well as extinct Dinosauria, were shifts from quadrupedalism to bipedalism (and vice versa).
Allen, V +3 more
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Dinosaur locomotion and biomechanics, especially of their pelvic girdles and hindlimbs, have been analyzed in numerous studies. However, detailed volumetric musculoskeletal models of their tails are rarely developed.
Verónica Díez Díaz +6 more
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Bite and tooth marks on sauropod dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation [PDF]
Tooth-marked bones provide important evidence for feeding choices made by extinct carnivorous animals. In the case of the dinosaurs, most bite traces are attributed to the large and robust osteophagous tyrannosaurs, but those of other large carnivores ...
Roberto Lei +5 more
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A diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate tracksite from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia [PDF]
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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Teeth of embryonic or hatchling sauropods from the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) of Cherves-de-Cognac, France [PDF]
Copyright © 2016 P.M. Barrett et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (for details please see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution,
Barrett, PM +3 more
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Abstract Various terrestrial tetrapods convergently evolved to gigantism (large body sizes and masses), the most extreme case being sauropod dinosaurs. Heavy weight‐bearing taxa often show external morphological features related to this condition, but also adequacy in their limb bone inner structure: a spongiosa filling the medullary area and a rather ...
Rémi Lefebvre +2 more
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Taxonomic and stratigraphic update of the material historically attributed to Megalosaurus from Portugal [PDF]
The first paleontological works on Mesozoic vertebrates from Portugal, carried out from the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, provided the discovery of significant collections of vertebrate fossils.
Elisabete Malafaia +4 more
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New Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) sauropod remains from the Valtos Formation, Isle of Skye, Scotland [PDF]
The discovery of a sauropod tooth and a single sauropod footprint from the Valtos Formation supplements our knowledge of these dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic of the Isle of Skye.
Clark, Neil D.L., Gavin, Patrick
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