ENHYDROSS: A New Mechanistic Model Supports the Trans-Oceanic Dispersal Capability of Terrestrial Vertebrates. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWe introduce ENHYDROSS, a new mechanistic model that uses optimal swimming speed and minimum cost of transport to estimate maximum dispersal distances and durations for vertebrates, enabling assessment of long‐distance oceanic dispersal potential. Applied to a range of extant and extinct animals, the model's estimates generally align with observed data;
Pantelides A +5 more
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Exquisite air sac histological traces in a hyperpneumatized nanoid sauropod dinosaur from South America [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 This study reports the occurrence of pneumosteum (osteohistological structure related to an avian-like air sac system) in a nanoid (5.7-m-long) saltasaurid titanosaur from Upper Cretaceous Brazil.
Tito Aureliano +5 more
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Reassessment of Laplatasaurus araukanicus (Sauropoda: Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina [PDF]
Ameghiniana, 2015 Abstract. The original material assigned to Laplatasaurus araukanicus Huene come from five different localities in northern Patagonia (Argentina) where the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) lies exposed. This material includes several postcranial bones from multiple specimens and showing different conditions of preservation, often lacking anatomical overlap.
Alejandro Otero, Pablo Ariel Gallina
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Histological evidence for a supraspinous ligament in sauropod dinosaurs [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Supraspinous ossified rods have been reported in the sacra of some derived sauropod dinosaurs. Although different hypotheses have been proposed to explain the origin of this structure, histological evidence has never been provided to support or reject ...
Ignacio A. Cerda +3 more
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Estudios Geologicos, 2010 El Cretácico Superior de América del Sur ha brindado fósiles del titanosaurio Aeolosaurini Aeolosaurus, de Argentina (de las Formaciones Allen, Los Alamitos, Angostura Colorada y Bajo Barreal) y de Brasil (de las Formaciones Adamantina y Marília).
C. R.A. Candeiro
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A New Titanosaurian Braincase from the Cretaceous "Lo Hueco" Locality in Spain Sheds Light on Neuroanatomical Evolution within Titanosauria. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Despite continuous improvements, our knowledge of the neurocranial anatomy of sauropod dinosaurs as a whole is still poor, which is especially true for titanosaurians even though their postcranial remains are common in many Upper Cretaceous sites ...
Fabien Knoll +4 more
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Description of the skull, braincase, and dentition of Moschognathus whaitsi (Dinocephalia, Tapinocephalia), and its palaeobiological and behavioral implications. [PDF]
Anat Rec (Hoboken)Abstract A subadult Moschognathus whaitsi from the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, was scanned using synchrotron radiation X‐ray computed tomography (SRXCT). Its subadult state allowed the cranial bones and teeth to be identified and individually reconstructed in 3D.
Lafferty T +3 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Studies investigating paleopathologies in sauropods remain scarce despite their relative abundance in the fossil record. In this study we report new occurrence of paleopathological features, corresponding to a neoplasm found in a middle caudal vertebra (MCT.R.2120) of an advanced titanosaur from the Presidente Prudente Formation (Bauru Basin ...
Maria Luiza Peres Bertolossi +5 more
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Europatitan eastwoodi, a new sauropod from the lower Cretaceous of Iberia in the initial radiation of somphospondylans in Laurasia [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 The sauropod of El Oterillo II is a specimen that was excavated from the Castrillo de la Reina Formation (Burgos, Spain), late Barremian–early Aptian, in the 2000s but initially remained undescribed.
Fidel Torcida Fernández-Baldor +4 more
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Osteology of the dorsal vertebrae of the giant titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur Dreadnoughtus schrani from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2017 Many titanosaurian dinosaurs are known only from fragmentary remains, making comparisons between taxa difficult because they often lack overlapping skeletal elements.
Kristyn K. Voegele +2 more
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