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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A Late Cretaceous dinosaur and crocodyliform faunal association-based on isolate teeth and osteoderms-at Cerro Fortaleza Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian) type locality, Santa Cruz, Argentina. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 The Late Cretaceous dinosaur record in southern South America has been improved recently; particularly with findings from Chorrillo and Cerro Fortaleza formations, both bearing ankylosaur remains, a clade that was not previously recorded in the Austral ...
Ariana Paulina-Carabajal +4 more
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First palaeoneurological study of a sauropod dinosaur from France and its phylogenetic significance [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Despite continuous improvements, our knowledge of the palaeoneurology of sauropod dinosaurs is still deficient. This holds true even for Titanosauria, which is a particularly speciose clade of sauropods with representatives known from numerous Cretaceous
Fabien Knoll +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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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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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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Heterodonty in the teeth of the turiasaurian sauropod from Angeac-Charente (Early Cretaceous, southwestern France): Comparison of anatomical and geometric morphometric approaches. [PDF]
J AnatTuriasaurian teeth from Angeac‐Charente exhibit five dental morphotypes and reveal clear heterodonty and anteroposterior size gradient. Qualitative comparative anatomy quickly and efficiently identifies morphotypes, while 3D geometric morphometrics combined with machine learning refine ambiguous cases, demonstrating that qualitative and quantitative ...
Gouellec CL +7 more
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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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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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The Anatomy and Phylogenetic Relationships of "Pelorosaurus" becklesii (Neosauropoda, Macronaria) from the Early Cretaceous of England. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The sauropod dinosaur "Pelorosaurus" becklesii was named in 1852 on the basis of an associated left humerus, ulna, radius and skin impression from the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian-Valanginian) Hastings Beds Group, near Hastings, East Sussex, southeast ...
Paul Upchurch +2 more
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