Postcranial osteology of Beipiaosaurus inexpectus (Theropoda: Therizinosauria).
PLoS ONE, 2021 Beipiaosaurus inexpectus, from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Sihetun locality, near Beipiao), Liaoning, China, is a key taxon for understanding the early evolution of therizinosaurians.
Chun-Chi Liao +3 more
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Notas Sobre Spinosauridae (Theropoda, Dinosauria) [PDF]
Anuário do Instituto de Geociências, 2005 Spinosaur remains were collected in Africa, Europa, Asia and Brazil, coming from deposits with ages ranging from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous.
Elaine Batista Machado +1 more
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Forearm Range of Motion in Australovenator wintonensis (Theropoda, Megaraptoridae). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The hypertrophied manual claws and modified manus of megaraptoran theropods represent an unusual morphological adaptation among carnivorous dinosaurs. The skeleton of Australovenator wintonensis from the Cenomanian of Australia is among the most complete
Matt A White +6 more
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Reconsidering the Avian Nature of the Oviraptorosaur Brain (Dinosauria: Theropoda). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The high degree of encephalization characterizing modern birds is the product of a long evolutionary history, our understanding of which is still largely in its infancy.
Amy M Balanoff, G S Bever, Mark A Norell
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The first juvenile dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from Arctic Alaska.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Compared to the osteological record of herbivorous dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation of northern Alaska, there are relatively fewer remains of theropods.
Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza +5 more
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Why tyrannosaurid forelimbs were so short: An integrative hypothesis [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 The unusually shortened limbs of giant theropods, including abelisaurids, carcharodontosaurids, and derived tyrannosauroids such as Tyrannosaurus rex have long been an object of wonder, speculation, and even derision on the part of both ...
KEVIN PADIAN
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Forelimb muscle and joint actions in Archosauria: insights from Crocodylus johnstoni (Pseudosuchia) and Mussaurus patagonicus (Sauropodomorpha) [PDF]
, 2017 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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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 Numerous dromaeosaurid taxa recovered from the Upper Cretaceous strata of the Gobi Desert raise questions over niche partitioning among closely related species.
ŁUKASZ CZEPIŃSKI
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Iridescent plumage in a juvenile dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 Colour reconstructions have provided new insights into the lives of dinosaurs and other extinct animals, by predicting colouration patterns from fossilised pigment-bearing organelles called melanosomes.
ANGUS D. CROUDACE +4 more
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A new two-fingered dinosaur sheds light on the radiation of Oviraptorosauria [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Late Cretaceous trends in Asian dinosaur diversity are poorly understood, but recent discoveries have documented a radiation of oviraptorosaur theropods in China and Mongolia.
Gregory F. Funston +5 more
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