The origin and evolution of dinosaurs

PC Sereno - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1997 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Phylogenetic studies and new fossil evidence have yielded fundamental insights
into the pattern and timing of dinosaur evolution and the emergence of functionally modern …

Cretaceous palaeogeography of the Indian subcontinent; a review

SK Acharyya, TC Lahiri - Cretaceous Research, 1991 - Elsevier
Break-up of the Greater Indian continent influenced the Cretaceous palaeogeography of the
Indian subcontinent. A new set of linear fluvial to shallow marine basins was formed prior to …

The evolution of the antorbital cavity of archosaurs: a study in soft-tissue reconstruction in the fossil record with an analysis of the function of pneumaticity

LM Witmer - Journal of vertebrate Paleontology, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
The most commonly cited apomorphy of Archosauriformes is an opening in the snout known
as the antorbital cavity. Despite the ubiquity and prominence of the antorbital cavity, its …

Predatory dinosaurs from the Sahara and Late Cretaceous faunal differentiation

PC Sereno, DB Dutheil, M Iarochene, HCE Larsson… - Science, 1996 - science.org
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) fossils discovered in the Kem Kem region of Morocco
include large predatory dinosaurs that inhabited Africa as it drifted into geographic isolation …

CRANIOFACIAL ANATOMY OF MAJUNGASAURUS CRENATISSIMUS (THEROPODA: ABELISAURIDAE) FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF MADAGASCAR

SD Sampson, LM Witmer - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Recent fieldwork in the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maevarano Formation, northwest
Madagascar, has yielded important new skull material of the abelisaurid theropod …

The phylogeny of ceratosauria (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

MT Carrano, SD Sampson - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Recent discoveries and analyses have drawn increased attention to Ceratosauria, a
taxonomically and morphologically diverse group of basal theropods. By the time of its first …

Predatory dinosaur remains from Madagascar: implications for the Cretaceous biogeography of Gondwana

SD Sampson, LM Witmer, CA Forster, DW Krause… - Science, 1998 - science.org
Recent discoveries of fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar include
several specimens of a large theropod dinosaur. One specimen includes a nearly complete …

Postosuchus, a new Thecodontian reptile from the Triassic of Texas and the origin of Tyrannosaurs

S Chatterjee - … Transactions of the Royal Society of …, 1985 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Postosuchus kirkpatricki (ng, n. sp.) is a large, gracile, carnivorous thecodontian from the
late Triassic Dockum Group of Texas. The species is characterized by its erect and …

[PDF][PDF] A new carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina

RA Coria, PJ Currie - Geodiversitas, 2006 - app.ingemmet.gob.pe
ABSTRACT A new carcharodontosaurid theropod from the Huincul Formation (Aptian-
Cenomanian, Upper Cretaceous) of Neuquén Province, Argentina, is described …

Dental morphology and variation in theropod dinosaurs: implications for the taxonomic identification of isolated teeth

JB Smith, DR Vann, P Dodson - The Anatomical Record Part A …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Isolated theropod teeth are common Mesozoic fossils and would be an important data
source for paleoecology biogeography if they could be reliably identified as having come …