Across space and time: A review of sampling, preservational, analytical, and anthropogenic biases in fossil data across macroecological scales

K Nanglu, TM Cullen - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantitative studies of fossil data have proven critical to a number of major
macroevolutionary and macroecological discoveries, such as the 'Big 5'mass extinctions of …

Early Cretaceous troodontine troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Ohyamashimo Formation of Japan reveals the early evolution of Troodontinae

K Kubota, Y Kobayashi, T Ikeda - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
A new troodontid dinosaur, Hypnovenator matsubaraetoheorum gen. et sp. nov., is
described based on an articulated postcranial skeleton recovered from the fluvial deposits of …

Exceptionally preserved stomach contents of a young tyrannosaurid reveal an ontogenetic dietary shift in an iconic extinct predator

F Therrien, DK Zelenitsky, K Tanaka, JT Voris… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Tyrannosaurids were large carnivorous dinosaurs that underwent major changes in skull
robusticity and body proportions as they grew, suggesting that they occupied different …

Forty new specimens of Ichthyornis provide unprecedented insight into the postcranial morphology of crownward stem group birds

J Benito, A Chen, LE Wilson, BAS Bhullar, D Burnham… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Ichthyornis has long been recognized as a pivotally important fossil taxon for understanding
the latest stages of the dinosaur–bird transition, but little significant new postcranial material …

Neuroanatomy of the late Cretaceous Thescelosaurus neglectus (Neornithischia: Thescelosauridae) reveals novel ecological specialisations within Dinosauria

DJ Button, LE Zanno - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Ornithischian dinosaurs exhibited a diversity of ecologies, locomotory modes, and social
structures, making them an ideal clade in which to study the evolution of neuroanatomy and …

The macroecology of Mesozoic dinosaurs

AA Chiarenza - Biology Letters, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Dinosaurs thrived for over 160 million years in Mesozoic ecosystems, displaying diverse
ecological and evolutionary adaptations. Their ecology was shaped by large-scale climatic …

Calibrating geologic strata, dinosaurs, and other fossils at Dinosaur Provincial Park (Alberta, Canada) using a new CA-ID-TIMS U–Pb geochronology

DA Eberth, DC Evans, J Ramezani… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
The 100 m thick stratigraphic section exposed at Dinosaur Provincial Park (DPP; southern
Alberta) contains bentonites that have been used for more than 30 years to date DPP's rocks …

New biogeochemical insights into Mesozoic terrestrial paleoecology and evidence for omnivory in troodontid dinosaurs

TM Cullen, BL Cousens - Geological Society of America …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Cretaceous paleocommunities of North America preserve a rich record of
biodiversity that suggests many species occupied narrow biogeographic ranges in …

[HTML][HTML] Insufficient evidence for multiple species of Tyrannosaurus in the latest Cretaceous of North America: A comment on “The Tyrant Lizard King, queen and …

TD Carr, JG Napoli, SL Brusatte, TR Holtz… - Evolutionary …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Late Cretaceous dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex was recently split into three
species based on the premise that variation in the T. rex hypodigm is exceptional, indicating …

Description of the first definitive Corythosaurus (Dinosauria, Hadrosauridae) specimens from the Judith River Formation in Montana, USA and their …

R Takasaki, K Chiba, AR Fiorillo, KS Brink… - The Anatomical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the long history of research in the late Campanian Judith River Formation in
northern Montana, most of the vertebrate fossils are represented by fragmentary remains …