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The first ornithomimosaur remains from Germany [PDF]

open access: yesActa Palaeontologica Polonica
Ornithomimosauria is a group of coelurosaurs primarily known from the Cretaceous of Asia and North America. The European record is comparatively sparse, with Pelecanimimus from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain being the only unequivocal representative. Here,
Denis Theda   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The systematics of Late Jurassic tyrannosauroids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from Europe and North America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Recent discoveries of more than ten new species of tyrannosauroid theropods are helping to understand the origin and evolution of colossal body size and other characteristic features of Tyrannosaurus rex and its terminal Cretaceous relatives ...
Brusatte, Steve, Roger, Benson
core   +1 more source

The anatomy and systematic position of the theropod dinosaur Chilantaisaurus tashuikouensis Hu, 1964 from the Early Cretaceous of Alanshan, People's Republic of China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
There is little consensus on the systematic position of the colossal theropod dinosaur Chilantaisaurus tashuikouensis from the Cretaceous (Aptian–?Albian or Upper Cretaceous) Ulansuhai Formation of Inner Mongolia, which has been recovered as a derived ...
Barsbold   +27 more
core   +1 more source

Biomechanical evolution of solid bones in large animals: a microanatomical investigation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
International ...
Alexander   +72 more
core   +1 more source

The muscle-powered bite of allosaurus (dinosauria; theropoda): an interpretation of cranio-dental morphology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
11 pages, 7 figures.[EN] The skull morphology of Allosaurus has been the subject of functional interpretations which imply a predatory behaviour radically different from that recorded in any predatory land vertebrate.
Antón, Mauricio   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

A survey of dinosaur diversity by clade, age, place of discovery and year of description [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Dinosaur diversity is analyzed in terms of the number of valid genera within each major clade, Mesozoic age, place of discovery and year of description. Aves (Archaeopteryx + Neornithes) is excluded. Nomina nuda and nomina dubia are not counted.
Taylor, Michael
core   +3 more sources

A lost tooth in the jungle: revisiting the sole dinosaurian record from northern Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
The record of Mesozoic reptiles in the Northern region of Brazil is extremely limited, with the only definite occurrence consisting of two ziphodont teeth recovered from an oil well core in the municipality of Nova Olinda do Norte, Amazonas state, from ...
THEO B. RIBEIRO   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reanalysis of "Raptorex kriegsteini": a juvenile tyrannosaurid dinosaur from Mongolia.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
The carnivorous Tyrannosauridae are among the most iconic dinosaurs: typified by large body size, tiny forelimbs, and massive robust skulls with laterally thickened teeth.
Denver W Fowler   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

On Galileo’s Tallest Column

open access: yesMathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2015, Issue 1, 2015., 2015
The height at which an unloaded column will fail under its own weight was calculated for first time by Galileo for cylindrical columns. Galileo questioned himself if there exists a shape function for the cross section of the column with which it can attain a greater height than the cylindrical column.
Mariano Vázquez Espí   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A standard protocol for documenting modern and fossil ichnological data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
© The Palaeontological Association. The collection and dissemination of vertebrate ichnological data is struggling to keep up with techniques that are becoming commonplace in the wider palaeontological field.
Abrahams   +69 more
core   +4 more sources

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