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 …

A new feather type in a nonavian theropod and the early evolution of feathers

X Xu, X Zheng, H You - Proceedings of the National …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
All described feathers in nonavian theropods are composite structures formed by multiple
filaments. They closely resemble relatively advanced stages predicted by developmental …

[HTML][HTML] Forelimb musculature and osteological correlates in Sauropodomorpha (Dinosauria, Saurischia)

A Otero - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
This contribution presents the forelimb muscular arrangement of sauropodomorph dinosaurs
as inferred by comparisons with living archosaurs (crocodiles and birds) following the Extant …

The coevolution of rostral keratin and tooth distribution in dinosaurs

I Aguilar-Pedrayes, JD Gardner… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Teeth evolved early in vertebrate evolution, and their morphology reflects important
specializations in diet and ecology among species. The toothless jaws (edentulism) in extant …

[HTML][HTML] The osteology and affinities of Eotyrannus lengi, a tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wealden Supergroup of southern England

D Naish, A Cau - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Eotyrannus lengi Hutt et al., 2001 from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation (part of the
Wealden Supergroup) of the Isle of Wight, southern England, is described in detail …

Morphological and functional diversity in therizinosaur claws and the implications for theropod claw evolution

S Lautenschlager - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Therizinosaurs are a group of herbivorous theropod dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of North
America and Asia, best known for their iconically large and elongate manual claws …

Elongatoolithid eggs containing oviraptorid (Theropoda, Oviraptorosauria) embryos from the Upper Cretaceous of Southern China

S Wang, S Zhang, C Sullivan, X Xu - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2016 - Springer
Background Oviraptorids, like many other dinosaurs, clearly had a complex pattern of
skeletal growth involving numerous morphological changes. However, many ontogenetic …

The first dinosaur from Washington State and a review of Pacific Coast dinosaurs from North America

BR Peecook, CA Sidor - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
We describe the first diagnostic dinosaur fossil from Washington State. The specimen, which
consists of a proximal left femur, was recovered from the shallow marine rocks of the Upper …

The anatomy and systematic position of the theropod dinosaur Chilantaisaurus tashuikouensis Hu, 1964 from the Early Cretaceous of Alanshan, People's Republic of …

RBJ Benson, X Xing - Geological Magazine, 2008 - cambridge.org
There is little consensus on the systematic position of the colossal theropod dinosaur
Chilantaisaurus tashuikouensis from the Cretaceous (Aptian–? Albian or Upper Cretaceous) …

Description of Arundel Clay ornithomimosaur material and a reinterpretation of Nedcolbertia justinhofmanni as an “Ostrich Dinosaur”: biogeographic implications

CD Brownstein - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
The fossil record of dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of Eastern North America is scant,
especially since a few stratigraphic units from the east are fossiliferous. Among these …