Patagonia has yielded the most comprehensive fossil record of Cretaceous theropods from
Gondwana, consisting of 31 nominal species belonging to singleton taxa and six families …

The pattern, timing and extent of the evolutionary radiation of anatomically modern birds
(Neornithes) remains contentious: dramatically different timescales for this major event in …

Abstract The Late Cretaceous was a time of tremendous global change, as the final stages
of the Age of Dinosaurs were shaped by climate and sea level fluctuations and witness to …

Late Mesozoic palaeobiogeography has been characterized by a distinction between the
northern territories of Laurasia and the southern landmasses of Gondwana. The repeated …

The fossil record of Jurassic theropod dinosaurs closely related to birds remains poor. A new
theropod from the earliest Late Jurassic of western China represents the earliest diverging …

The last two decades have seen a remarkable increase in the known diversity of basal
avialans and their paravian relatives. The lack of resolution in the relationships of these …

The Alvarezsauridae represents a branch of peculiar basal coelurosaurs with an increasing
representation of their Cretaceous radiation distributed worldwide. Here we describe a new …

This chapter will cover clade definitions, the relationships within clades as well as the
occasional controversial relationships between different clades. Phylogenies arising from a …

The Haţeg Island fauna of the terminal Late Cretaceous (ca. 71–65 million years ago) of
Romania is one of the most unusual dinosaur assemblages in the global fossil record. It has …

A diverse Maastrichtian dinosaur-dominated fauna is known from the Red Continental Strata
of the Transylvanian Basin and the Densuş-Ciula Formation and Pui beds of the Haţeg …