An evolutionary cascade model for sauropod dinosaur gigantism-overview, update and tests

PM Sander - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Sauropod dinosaurs are a group of herbivorous dinosaurs which exceeded all other
terrestrial vertebrates in mean and maximal body size. Sauropod dinosaurs were also the …

Two Late Cretaceous sauropods reveal titanosaurian dispersal across South America

EM Hechenleitner, L Leuzinger, AG Martinelli… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
South American titanosaurians have been central to the study of the evolution of Cretaceous
sauropod dinosaurs. Despite their remarkable diversity, the fragmentary condition of several …

Integrated overview of the vertebrate fossil record of the Ladruñán anticline (Spain): evidence of a Barremian alluvial-lacustrine system in NE Iberia frequented by …

JM Gasca, M Moreno-Azanza, B Bádenas… - Palaeogeography …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Barremian Mirambel Formation (Maestrazgo Basin, Iberian Chain, NE Spain)
preserves different types of dinosaur and other vertebrate fossils (skeletal, eggshell and …

New Late Cretaceous titanosaur sauropod dinosaur egg clutches from lower Narmada valley, India: Palaeobiology and taphonomy

H Dhiman, V Verma, LR Singh, V Miglani, DK Jha… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Lameta Formation is well-known for its osteological
and oological remains of sauropods from the eastern and western parts of the Narmada …

The upper Maastrichtian dinosaur fossil record from the southern Pyrenees and its contribution to the topic of the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction event

JI Canudo, O Oms, B Vila, A Galobart, V Fondevilla… - Cretaceous …, 2016 - Elsevier
In the present paper, the fossil record of the archosaurs (dinosaurs, crocodylomorphs and
pterosaurs) of the southern Pyrenees before the Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K–Pg) transition …

Reconstruction of oviraptorid clutches illuminates their unique nesting biology

TR Yang, J Wiemann, L Xu, YN Cheng… - Acta Palaeontologica …, 2019 - agro.icm.edu.pl
Oviraptorosaurs, a group of non-avian theropod dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Asia and
North America, left behind the most abundant and informative fossil evidence of dinosaur …

Paleobiology of titanosaurs: reproduction, development, histology, pneumaticity, locomotion and neuroanatomy from the South American fossil record

RA García, L Salgado, MS Fernández, IA Cerda… - Ameghiniana, 2015 - BioOne
Much of the current paleobiological knowledge on titanosaur sauropods was attained in just
the last fifteen years, in particular that related to reproductive and developmental biology …

Taphonomical and palaeoecological investigation of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Tuştea vertebrate assemblage (Romania; Haţeg Basin)-insights into a …

G Botfalvai, Z Csiki-Sava, D Grigorescu… - Palaeogeography …, 2017 - Elsevier
The Tuştea vertebrate locality, at Oltoane Hill (northwestern part of the Hațeg Basin,
Romania), has provided a rich and diverse assemblage of Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) …

Dinosaur eggs in the Upper Cretaceous of the Coll de Nargó area, Lleida Province, south-central Pyrenees, Spain: Oodiversity, biostratigraphy and their implications

AG Sellés, AM Bravo, X Delclòs, F Colombo, X Martí… - Cretaceous …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Coll de Nargó area (Lleida Province, south-central Pyrenees) has yielded thousands of
dinosaur eggs distributed in more than 30 levels across 370 m of Upper Cretaceous Tremp …

What do giant titanosaur dinosaurs and modern Australasian megapodes have in common?

EM Hechenleitner, G Grellet-Tinner, LE Fiorelli - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
Titanosauria is a globally distributed clade of sometimes extremely large Mesozoic
herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs. On the basis of current evidence these giant dinosaurs …