Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles

CT Griffin, MR Stocker, C Colleary… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Morphology forms the most fundamental level of data in vertebrate palaeontology because it
is through interpretations of morphology that taxa are identified, creating the basis for broad …

Morphology and distribution of scales, dermal ossifications, and other non‐feather integumentary structures in non‐avialan theropod dinosaurs

C Hendrickx, PR Bell, M Pittman, ARC Milner… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Modern birds are typified by the presence of feathers, complex evolutionary innovations that
were already widespread in the group of theropod dinosaurs (Maniraptoriformes) that …

[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 …

[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 …

Oviraptorosaur anatomy, diversity and ecology in the Nemegt Basin

GF Funston, SE Mendonca, PJ Currie… - Palaeogeography …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The interfingering Baruungoyot and Nemegt Formations of Mongolia host an
exceptional diversity of oviraptorosaurs that is unique in including members of all three Late …

A new two-fingered dinosaur sheds light on the radiation of Oviraptorosauria

GF Funston, T Chinzorig… - Royal Society …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Late Cretaceous trends in Asian dinosaur diversity are poorly understood, but recent
discoveries have documented a radiation of oviraptorosaur theropods in China and …

[HTML][HTML] A new oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the end-Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation of North America

KL Atkins-Weltman, DJ Simon, HN Woodward… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Caenagnathidae is a clade of derived, Late Cretaceous oviraptorosaurian theropods from
Asia and North America. Because their remains are rare and often fragmentary …

Osteology of the two-fingered oviraptorid Oksoko avarsan (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria)

GF Funston - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Oviraptorosaurs are among the most diverse and best-known extinct theropod groups. Their
bizarre anatomy and their social and reproductive behaviour are now well understood …

Caenagnathids of the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada: anatomy, osteohistology, taxonomy, and evolution

G Funston - Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology …, 2020 - journals.library.ualberta.ca
Our understanding of caenagnathid anatomy, diversity, and ecology has improved
considerably in the past twenty years, but numerous issues still remain. Among these, the …

Lithobiotopes of the Nemegt Gobi Basin1

T Jerzykiewicz, PJ Currie, F Fanti… - Canadian Journal of …, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Three distinct but overlapping dinosaur-dominated faunas characterize the Upper
Cretaceous Djadokhta, Baruungoyot, and Nemegt formations of the Nemegt Basin of …