The herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods were the
largest terrestrial animals ever, surpassing the largest herbivorous mammals by an order of …

The idea that South America was an island continent over most of the Cenozoic, during
which its unusual mammalian faunas evolved in isolation, is outstandingly influential in …

Titanosauriforms represent a diverse and globally distributed clade of neosauropod
dinosaurs, but their inter-relationships remain poorly understood. Here we redescribe …

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 …

Abstract The Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, southeastern Africa, records a
rich sauropod fauna, including the diplodocoids Dicraeosaurus and Tornieria, and the …

Abelisaurids are a clade of large, bizarre predatory dinosaurs, most notable for their high,
short skulls and extremely reduced forelimbs. They were common in Gondwana during the …

Sauropod dinosaur bones are common in Mesozoic terrestrial sediments, but sauropod
skulls are exceedingly rare—cranial materials are known for less than one third of sauropod …

The defining masterwork on the evolution of reptiles. Over 300 million years ago, an early
land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be …

Abstract The Early Jurassic Jenkyns Event (∼ 183 Ma) was characterized in terrestrial
environments by global warming, perturbation of the carbon cycle, enhanced weathering …

Fragmentary remains of a large, robustly built theropod dinosaur were recovered from the
marine middle Callovian Ornatenton Formation of north-eastern Northrhine-Westphalia …