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The theropod furcula [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Morphology, 2009
AbstractThe furcula is a structure formed by the midline fusion of the clavicles. This is the element which is unique to theropods and is important for understanding the link between birds and other theropods. New specimens from basal theropods suggest that the furcula appeared very early in theropod history.
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Theropods and the Origin of Birds

2022
This chapter covers the characteristics and systematics of theropods while also considering the origin of birds. It mentions how early theropods were small, agile, lightly built, bipedal carnivores with long arms and legs. The evolutionary history of theropods varies since some gain forms with long and greatly enlarged forelimbs, while other forms ...
F. Harvey Pough   +3 more
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A Crested Theropod Dinosaur from Antarctica

Science, 1994
Jurassic fossil vertebrates collected from the Falla Formation in the Central Transantarctic Mountains included a partial skull and postcranial elements of a crested theropod, Cryolophosaurus ellioti gen. nov. sp. nov.
W R, Hammer, W J, Hickerson
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Baryonyx, a remarkable new theropod dinosaur

Nature, 1986
An extremely large claw bone, some 30 cm long, was found in Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) deposits in a Surrey claypit in January 1983. This led to the discovery the following month of the well-preserved skeleton of a new large theropod dinosaur. Only one other theropod specimen comprising more than a few bones had ever been found in Britain, and that ...
A J, Charig, A C, Milner
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