Form and function of the mammalian inner ear

EG Ekdale - Journal of anatomy, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The inner ear of mammals consists of the cochlea, which is involved with the sense of
hearing, and the vestibule and three semicircular canals, which are involved with the sense …

Best practices for digitally constructing endocranial casts: examples from birds and their dinosaurian relatives

AM Balanoff, GS Bever, MW Colbert… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The rapidly expanding interest in, and availability of, digital tomography data to visualize
casts of the vertebrate endocranial cavity housing the brain (endocasts) presents new …

A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)

E Tschopp, O Mateus, RBJ Benson - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
Diplodocidae are among the best known sauropod dinosaurs. Several species were
described in the late 1800s or early 1900s from the Morrison Formation of North America …

[HTML][HTML] A basal lithostrotian titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) with a complete skull: implications for the evolution and paleobiology of Titanosauria

RDF Martínez, MC Lamanna, FE Novas, RC Ridgely… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
We describe Sarmientosaurus musacchioi gen. et sp. nov., a titanosaurian sauropod
dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian—Turonian) Lower Member of the Bajo …

A comprehensive anatomical and phylogenetic evaluation of Dilophosaurus wetherilli (Dinosauria, Theropoda) with descriptions of new specimens from the Kayenta …

AD Marsh, TB Rowe - Journal of Paleontology, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Dilophosaurus wetherilli was the largest animal known to have lived on land in North
America during the Early Jurassic. Despite its charismatic presence in pop culture and …

Second specimen of the Late Cretaceous Australian sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae provides new anatomical information on the skull and neck of …

SF Poropat, M Kundrát, PD Mannion… - Zoological Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae is represented by two
individuals from the Cenomanian–lower Turonian 'upper'Winton Formation of central …

A new basal sauropod from the pre-Toarcian Jurassic of South Africa: evidence of niche-partitioning at the sauropodomorph–sauropod boundary?

BW McPhee, MF Bonnan, AM Yates, J Neveling… - Scientific Reports, 2015 - nature.com
The early evolution of sauropod dinosaurs remains poorly understood, with a paucity of
unequivocal sauropod taxa known from the first twenty million years of the Jurassic …

[HTML][HTML] A revised cranial description of Massospondylus carinatus Owen (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) based on computed tomographic scans and a review of …

KEJ Chapelle, JN Choiniere - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Massospondylus carinatus is a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the early Jurassic
Elliot Formation of South Africa. It is one of the best-represented fossil dinosaur taxa, known …

The Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur 'Morosaurus' agilis Marsh, 1889 reexamined and reinterpreted as a dicraeosaurid

JA Whitlock, JAW Mantilla - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The holotypic materials of the sauropod 'Morosaurus' agilis—a partial skull, proatlases, and
first three cervical vertebrae—have been a taxonomic and phylogenetic mystery since their …

Virtual reconstruction of the endocranial anatomy of the early Jurassic marine crocodylomorph Pelagosaurus typus (Thalattosuchia)

SE Pierce, M Williams, RBJ Benson - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
Thalattosuchians were highly specialised aquatic archosaurs of the Jurassic and Early
Cretaceous, and represent a peak of aquatic adaptation among crocodylomorphs. Relatively …