A synthesis on the state of art on dinosaur knowledge in Portugal is presented. The following genera have been recognized: Ceratosaurus, Torvosaurus, Lourinhanosaurus, Allosaurus …
JA Wilson, PC Sereno - Journal of vertebrate paleontology, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
Although sauropods played a major role in terrestrial ecosystems during much of the Mesozoic Era, little effort has been directed toward diagnosing Sauropoda and establishing …
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 …
JA Wilson - Journal of vertebrate Paleontology, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
The vertebrae of sauropods are characterized by numerous bony struts that connect the costovertebral and intervertebral articulations, centrum, and neural spine of the presacral …
L Salgado, RA Coria, JO Calvo - Ameghiniana, 1997 - books.google.com
Evolution of titanosaurid sauropods: Phytogenetic analysis based on the postcranial evidence. Page 5 AMEGHINIANA (Rev. Asoc. Paleontol. Argent.) ISSN 0002-70l4 34 (l): 3-32. Buenos …
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 …
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 …
Background The axial skeleton of extinct saurischian dinosaurs (ie, theropods, sauropodomorphs), like living birds, was pneumatized by epithelial outpocketings of the …
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 …