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Inter‐ and intraspecific variation in theropod dinosaur dental microwear and its palaeoecological implications

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Differences in skull and tooth morphology, stomach contents, and estimated bite force between medium‐to‐large sized (≥100 kg) predatory theropod dinosaurs have long been suspected to correlate with differences in their diets and dietary guilds (e.g., hypercarnivory, piscivory).
Cassius Morrison, James Gregory, Christopher Jackson, Jordan Bestwick, Katlin Schroeder, Samuel J.L. Gascoigne, Paul Bills, Laura B. Porro, Philip D. Mannion, Paul M. Barrett   +9 more
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High rates of evolution preceded the origin of birds [PDF]

, 2014
The origin of birds (Aves) is one of the great evolutionary transitions. Fossils show that many unique morphological features of modern birds, such as feathers, reduction in body size, and the semilunate carpal, long preceded the origin of clade Aves ...
Allen, Bapst, Barrett, Beaulieu, Benson, Brusatte, Butler, Campbell, Campione, Carrano, Carrano, Carrano, Chatterjee, Clarke, Dececchi, Dececchi, Dial, Dyke, Eastman, Felsenstein, Freckleton, Gatesy, Gatesy, Gingerich, Gingerich, Godefroit, Gong, Hansen, Harmon, Hu, Hunt, Hunt, Hutchinson, Landis, Lee, Lloyd, Middleton, Nesbitt, Novas, Nudds, O'Connor, O'Meara, Padian, Pagel, Pagel, Pagel, Revell, Revell, Revell, Slater, Sookias, Sullivan, Thomas, Thomas, Turner, Turner, Venditti, Xing, Xu, Xu, Zanno, Zanno, Zhang, Zheng, Zhou   +64 more
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Diet of bird‐like troodontid dinosaurs: synthesis of a contentious clade

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Troodontidae is a clade of small‐to medium‐sized maniraptoran theropods that mainly lived in Laurasia (modern Asia, North America and Europe) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are believed to have had a variety of diets. The uniqueness of troodontid teeth suggests that they diverged from the typical flesh‐based diet of non‐avian ...
Yui Chi Fan, Case Vincent Miller, Michael Pittman   +2 more
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Mosaic evolution in an asymmetrically feathered troodontid dinosaur with transitional features [PDF]

, 2017
Asymmetrical feathers have been associated with flight capability but are also found in species that do not fly, and their appearance was a major event in feather evolution.
A Ennos, A Feduccia, AH Turner, ALR Thomas, AP Russell, C Foth, C Foth, C Swisher, CA Brochu, CA Forster, CW Gilmore, DA Russell, DE Alexander, DY Hu, F Jin, FV Huene, G Dyke, J Gauthier, J Hall, J Lü, JA Clarke, JC Lü, JH Ostrom, M Norell, MA Norell, MA Norell, NE Campione, OC Marsh, P Currie, P Godefroit, P Godefroit, P Senter, P Senter, PA Goloboff, PJ Makovicky, Q Ji, RB Irmis, RN Brandon, RO Prum, RÅ Norberg, S Ji, SJ Nesbitt, SL Brusatte, T Rowe, TA Dececchi, TG Kaye, TJ Feo, TJ Feo, TRJr Holtz, UM Norberg, VA Tucker, X Xu, X Xu, X Xu, X Xu, X Xu, X Xu, X Xu, X Xu, X Xu, X Xu, X Xu, X Xu, X Xu, X Xu, X Xu, X Xu, X Xu, XL Wang, XT Zheng, ZH Zhou   +70 more
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Microbial mats in dinosaur ichnocoenoses

Sedimentology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Until now, the significance of microbial mats in preservation of dinosaur tracks and in reconstructing the palaeoenvironment in which dinosaurs roamed was rarely studied. Dinosaur tracks are commonly found close to ancient aquatic bodies where moist sediment had once allowed footstep registration.
Nora Noffke, Paul C. Murphey, Roger C. Buntin, Martin G. Lockley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hints of the early Jehol Biota: important dinosaur footprint assemblages from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary Tuchengzi Formation in Beijing, China.

PLoS ONE, 2015
New reports of dinosaur tracksites in the Tuchengzi Formation in the newly established Yanqing Global Geopark, Beijing, China, support previous inferences that the track assemblages from this formation are saurischian-dominated.
Lida Xing, Jianping Zhang, Martin G Lockley, Richard T McCrea, Hendrik Klein, Luis Alcalá, Lisa G Buckley, Michael E Burns, Susanna B Kümmell, Qing He   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE OSTEOLOGY OF ALIORAMUS, A GRACILE AND LONG-SNOUTED TYRANNOSAURID (DINOSAURIA: THEROPODA) FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF MONGOLIA [PDF]

, 2012
Fig. 68: Closeup of right ilium of the holotype specimen of Alioramus altai (IGM 100/1844) in lateral view. Scale bar 5 5 cm. Abbreviations as in figure 66.Published as part of Brusatte, Stephen L., Carr, Thomas D.
Brusatte, Stephen L., Carr, Thomas D., Norell, Mark A.   +2 more
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Bony cranial ornamentation linked to rapid evolution of gigantic theropod dinosaurs

Nature Communications, 2016
Many of the theropod dinosaurs, the group including Tyrannosaurus rex, had bony ornamentation on their skulls. Here, Gates et al. show that such ornaments are associated with greater body size and accelerated body size evolution in theropods; however ...
Terry A. Gates, Chris Organ, Lindsay E. Zanno   +2 more
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Dinosaurs in decline tens of millions of years before their final extinction [PDF]

, 2016
Whether dinosaurs were in a long-term decline or whether they were reigning strong right up to their final disappearance at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event 66 Mya has been debated for decades with no clear resolution.
Chenet, Chris Venditti, Manabu Sakamoto, Michael J. Benton, Sullivan   +4 more
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New perspectives on head and neck allometry and ecomorphology in tetrapods

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 2, Page 665-694, April 2026.
ABSTRACT The skull and neck are vital parts of the body, influencing feeding ecology, habitat exploitation and locomotion. Numerous studies have therefore sought to understand how the size of these segments vary with ecology and scale with overall body size.
Alice E. Maher, Philip G. Cox, Thomas W. Maddox, James D. Gardiner, Karl T. Bates   +4 more
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