The evolution of dinosaurs

PC Sereno - Science, 1999 - science.org
The ascendancy of dinosaurs on land near the close of the Triassic now appears to have
been as accidental and opportunistic as their demise and replacement by therian mammals …

Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism

PM Sander, A Christian, M Clauss… - Biological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[图书][B] Vertebrate palaeontology

MJ Benton - 2014 - books.google.com
Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and
not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate …

Sauropod dinosaur phylogeny: critique and cladistic analysis

JA Wilson - zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Sauropoda is among the most diverse and widespread dinosaurlineages, having attained a
near‐global distribution by the MiddleJurassic that was built on throughout the Cretaceous …

A new giant titanosaur sheds light on body mass evolution among sauropod dinosaurs

JL Carballido, D Pol, A Otero… - … of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Titanosauria was the most diverse and successful lineage of sauropod dinosaurs. This clade
had its major radiation during the middle Early Cretaceous and survived up to the end of that …

Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms

PD Mannion, P Upchurch, RN Barnes… - Zoological Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Titanosauriforms represent a diverse and globally distributed clade of neosauropod
dinosaurs, but their inter-relationships remain poorly understood. Here we redescribe …

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 …

The early evolution of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs

MD D'EMIC - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Titanosauriformes was a globally distributed, long-lived clade of dinosaurs that contains
both the largest and smallest known sauropods. These common and diverse …

Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod …

PD Mannion, P Upchurch, D Schwarz… - Zoological Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, southeastern Africa, records a
rich sauropod fauna, including the diplodocoids Dicraeosaurus and Tornieria, and the …

New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography

SF Poropat, PD Mannion, P Upchurch, SA Hocknull… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Australian dinosaurs have played a rare but controversial role in the debate surrounding the
effect of Gondwanan break-up on Cretaceous dinosaur distribution. Major spatiotemporal …