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A new ankylosaurine dinosaur from the Judith River Formation of Montana, USA, based on an exceptional skeleton with soft tissue preservation [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 The terrestrial Judith River Formation of northern Montana was deposited over an approximately 4 Myr interval during the Campanian (Late Cretaceous). Despite having been prospected and collected continuously by palaeontologists for over a century, few ...
Victoria M. Arbour, David C. Evans
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Two new stegosaur specimens from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Montana, USA [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2019 Two partial skeletons from Montana represent the northernmost occurrences of Stegosauria within North America. One of these specimens represents the northernmost dinosaur fossil ever recovered from the Morrison Formation.
D. Cary Woodruff +2 more
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The enamel microstructure of Manidens condorensis: New hypotheses on the ancestral state and evolution of enamel in Ornithischia [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2020 Previous studies on enamel microstructure in Ornithischia have focused on derived lineages of this clade based on species from the northern hemisphere.
Marcos G. Becerra, Diego Pol
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Neural canal ridges: A novel osteological correlate of postcranial neuroanatomy in dinosaurs. [PDF]
Anat Rec (Hoboken)Abstract In this article, we document the widespread presence of bony ridges in the neural canals of non‐avian dinosaurs, including a wide diversity of sauropods, two theropods, a thyreophoran, and a hadrosaur. These structures are present only in the caudal vertebrae.
Atterholt J +7 more
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A reassessment of the purported ankylosaurian dinosaur Bienosaurus lufengensis from the Lower Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, China [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2019 The earliest definitive ornithischian dinosaurs are from the Early Jurassic and are rare components of early dinosaur faunas. The Lower Lufeng Formation (Hettangian–Sinemurian) of Yunnan Province, China, has yielded a diverse Early Jurassic terrestrial ...
Thomas J. Raven +3 more
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The Anatomical Record, Volume 306, Issue 10, Page 2514-2536, October 2023., 2023 Abstract A reversion to secondary quadrupedality is exceptionally rare in nature, yet the convergent re‐evolution of this locomotor style occurred at least four separate times within Dinosauria. Facultative quadrupedality, an intermediate state between obligate bipedality and obligate quadrupedality, may have been an important transitional step in this
Lilian Anderson +4 more
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The Anatomical Record, Volume 306, Issue 7, Page 1864-1879, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Paleopathological diagnoses provide key information on the macroevolutionary origin of disease as well as behavioral and physiological inferences that are inaccessible via direct observation of extinct organisms. Here we describe the external gross morphology and internal architecture of a pathologic right second metatarsal (MMNS VP‐6332) of a
Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig +4 more
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Palaeontology, Volume 66, Issue 4, July/August 2023., 2023 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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Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 182-198, July 2022., 2022 Abstract Restoring functional ecosystems in Europe inter alia requires restoring large mammal (megafauna) diversity and densities to levels well above the current downgraded state, which results from a human‐driven wave of megafauna extinctions and extirpations in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene.
Arie Trouwborst +1 more
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Palaeontology, Volume 65, Issue 3, May/June 2022., 2022 Abstract Little is known about the large‐scale evolutionary patterns of skull size relative to body size, and the possible drivers behind these patterns, in Archosauromorpha. For example, the large skulls of erythrosuchids, a group of non‐archosaurian archosauromorphs from the Early and Middle Triassic, and of theropod dinosaurs are regarded as ...
Jordan Bestwick +8 more
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