Cope's rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution

RBJ Benson, G Hunt, MT Carrano… - Palaeontology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The largest known dinosaurs weighed at least 20 million times as much as the smallest,
indicating exceptional phenotypic divergence. Previous studies have focused on extreme …

Biotic and environmental dynamics through the L ate J urassic–E arly C retaceous transition: evidence for protracted faunal and ecological turnover

JP Tennant, PD Mannion, P Upchurch… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The L ate J urassic to E arly C retaceous interval represents a time of environmental
upheaval and cataclysmic events, combined with disruptions to terrestrial and marine …

The phylogenetic nomenclature of ornithischian dinosaurs

D Madzia, VM Arbour, CA Boyd, AA Farke… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Ornithischians form a large clade of globally distributed Mesozoic dinosaurs, and represent
one of their three major radiations. Throughout their evolutionary history, exceeding 134 …

[HTML][HTML] The distribution of dental features in non-avian theropod dinosaurs: Taxonomic potential, degree of homoplasy, and major evolutionary trends

C Hendrickx, O Mateus, M da Lourinhã, R Araújo… - 2019 - palaeo-electronica.org
Isolated theropod teeth are some of the most common fossils in the dinosaur fossil record
and are continually reported in the literature. Recently developed quantitative methods have …

Taxonomic, palaeobiological and evolutionary implications of a phylogenetic hypothesis for Ornithischia (Archosauria: Dinosauria)

DB Norman, MG Baron, MS Garcia… - Zoological Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The origin and evolutionary relationships of ornithischian dinosaurs are topics that have
undergone a series of substantial revisions. At present there are several competing …

A new phylogeny of cerapodan dinosaurs

PE Dieudonné, P Cruzado-Caballero… - Historical …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This work attempts at providing a revised framework for ornithischian phylogeny, based on
an exhaustive data compilation of already published analyses, a critical re-evaluation of …

Early evolution of sauropodomorphs: anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of a remarkably well-preserved dinosaur from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil

RT Müller, MC Langer, M Bronzati… - Zoological Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
An exceptional new specimen (CAPPA/UFSM 0035) of Buriolestes schultzi was discovered
during recent fieldwork at the type locality of the taxon, which is Carnian in age (Late …

The theropod dinosaur Elaphrosaurus bambergi, from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania

OWM Rauhut, MT Carrano - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Theropod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of Gondwana are still poorly known, with
Elaphrosaurus bambergi, from the late Kimmeridgian of Tendaguru, Tanzania, being the …

[PDF][PDF] The assembly of the avian body plan: a 160-million-year long process

CAU Andrea - Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 2018 - paleoitalia.it
The assembly of the avian body plan: a 160 million year long process Page 1 Bollettino
della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 57 (1), 2018. Modena The assembly of the avian body …

[图书][B] The rise of reptiles: 320 million years of evolution

HD Sues - 2019 - books.google.com
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 …