Relict duck-billed dinosaurs survived into the last age of the dinosaurs in subantarctic Chile

J Alarcón-Muñoz, AO Vargas, HP Püschel… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
In the dusk of the Mesozoic, advanced duck-billed dinosaurs (Hadrosauridae) were so
successful that they likely outcompeted other herbivores, contributing to declines in dinosaur …

A new Cretaceous thyreophoran from Patagonia supports a South American lineage of armoured dinosaurs

FJ Riguetti, S Apesteguía, X Pereda-Suberbiola - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The early evolution of thyreophoran dinosaurs is thought to have occurred primarily in
northern continents since most evidence comes from the Lower and Middle Jurassic of …

New fossils of Abelisauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the upper Maastrichtian of Morocco, North Africa

NR Longrich, E Isasmendi, X Pereda-Suberbiola… - Cretaceous …, 2023 - Elsevier
The end of the Cretaceous saw the evolution of endemic dinosaur faunas on different
landmasses, driven by continental fragmentation. Understanding the evolution of these …

Divergent strategies in cranial biomechanics and feeding ecology of the ankylosaurian dinosaurs

A Ballell, B Mai, MJ Benton - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Ankylosaurs were important megaherbivores of Jurassic and Cretaceous ecosystems. Their
distinctive craniodental anatomy and mechanics differentiated them from coexisting …

The phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the armoured dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Thyreophora)

TJ Raven, PM Barrett, CB Joyce… - Journal of Systematic …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The armoured dinosaurs (Thyreophora) were a significant component of Mesozoic terrestrial
ecosystems, appearing in the earliest Jurassic and surviving until the latest Cretaceous, and …

New records of Theropoda from a Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) locality in the Magallanes-Austral Basin, Patagonia, and insights into end Cretaceous …

SN Davis, S Soto-Acuña, RA Fernández… - Journal of South …, 2023 - Elsevier
The end Cretaceous mass extinction was marked by a dramatic change in biodiversity, and
the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs. To understand the diversity of dinosaur clades prior …

Fossil vertebrates from the Cerro Fortaleza Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

FL Agnolín, GÁ Herrera, MA Rolando, M Motta… - Cretaceous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cerro Fortaleza Formation is a stratigraphic unit that crops out near the Cerro
Fortaleza hill, northwestern Santa Cruz province, Argentina. This unit has been well-known …

A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis on early ornithischian evolution

AO Fonseca, IJ Reid, A Venner… - Journal of Systematic …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Resolving the evolutionary relationships of early diverging ('basal') ornithischian dinosaurs
is a challenging topic in palaeontology, with multiple competing hypotheses on the …

An annotated checklist of Australian Mesozoic tetrapods

SF Poropat, PR Bell, LJ Hart… - … Australasian Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In 2020, the Australasian palaeontological association Australasian Palaeontologists (AAP)
joined the Australian government-supported Australian National Species List (auNSL) …

A new small-bodied ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of North Patagonia (Río Negro Province, Argentina)

F Riguetti, X Pereda-Suberbiola, D Ponce… - Journal of Systematic …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The most representative ankylosaurian remains from Argentina have been found in
sediments of the Allen Formation (Campanian–Maastrichtian) in Salitral Moreno, Río Negro …