Rapid growth preceded gigantism in sauropodomorph evolution

J Botha, JN Choiniere, RBJ Benson - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Sauropod dinosaurs include the largest land animals to have walked the earth, mostly
weighing 10–70 tons (eg, Sander et al. 1 and Carballido et al. 2). Osteohistology suggests …

[HTML][HTML] A new massopodan sauropodomorph from Trossingen Formation (Germany) hidden as 'Plateosaurus' for 100 years in the historical Tübingen collection

ORR Fernández, I Werneburg - Vertebrate …, 2022 - vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com
A literature review showed that there is not a defined consensus on what specimens belong
to Plateosaurus in current phylogenetic analyses, and after the assignation of SMNS 13200 …

New skulls of the basal sauropodomorph Plateosaurus trossingensis from Frick, Switzerland: Is there more than one species?

JN Lallensack, E Teschner, B Pabst… - Acta Palaeontologica …, 2021 - repo.uni.opole.pl
The Triassic basal sauropodomorph Plateosaurus trossingensis is well-known from mass
accumulations at the German localities of Trossingen and Halberstadt and the Swiss locality …

[PDF][PDF] Postcranial osteology of the first early-stage juvenile skeleton of Plateosaurus trossingensis from the Norian of Frick, Switzerland

D Nau, JN Lallensack, U Bachmann… - Acta Palaeontologica …, 2020 - bibliotekanauki.pl
Owing to monospecific mass-accumulation sites in Central Europe, the early-branching
sauropodomorph Plateosaurus has one of the best fossil records among dinosaurs. Despite …

[图书][B] Dinosaurs: the textbook

S Lucas - 2022 - degruyter.com
One of the best-known prosauropods is Plateosaurus, from the Upper Triassic of western
Europe (figure 6.4). Mass death assemblages of this large (6 to 8 meters in body length) …

Ontogenetic changes in the postcranial skeleton of Mussaurus patagonicus (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) and their impact on the phylogenetic relationships of …

A Otero, D Pol - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Early sauropodomorphs were diverse in Gondwana, being particularly well represented in
South America. Mussaurus patagonicus is one of the best-known non-sauropod …

Diversity and taxonomy of the Late Triassic sauropodomorphs (Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha) stored in the Palaeontological Collection of Tübingen, Germany …

ORR Fernández, H Stöhr… - European journal …, 2023 - europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu
The genus Plateosaurus is one of the most challenging aspects of early-diverging
sauropodomorph taxonomy, with a total of 29 names and a century of revisions. As a result …

[HTML][HTML] Issi saaneq gen. et sp. nov.—A New Sauropodomorph Dinosaur from the Late Triassic (Norian) of Jameson Land, Central East Greenland

V Beccari, O Mateus, O Wings, J Milàn… - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Late Triassic (Norian) outcrops of the Malmros Klint Formation, Jameson Land
(Greenland) have yielded numerous specimens of non-sauropod sauropodomorphs …

Osteological revision of the holotype of the Middle Jurassic sauropod dinosaur Patagosaurus fariasi Bonaparte, 1979 (Sauropoda: Cetiosauridae)

FM Holwerda, OWM Rauhut, D Pol - Geodiversitas, 2021 - BioOne
Middle Jurassic sauropod taxa are poorly known, due to a stratigraphic bias of localities
yielding body fossils. One such locality is Cerro Cóndor North, Cañadón Asfalto Formation …

Osteological redescription of the holotype of Plateosaurus trossingensis (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of SW Germany and its …

J Schaeffer - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Plateosaurus von Meyer,, from the Norian of central Europe, was one of the first named
dinosaurs. With close to 200 referred specimens found all over central Europe, it is one of …