[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)

E Tschopp, O Mateus, RBJ Benson - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
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 …

Late Mesozoic North Atlantic land bridges

L Brikiatis - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Current palaeogeographical reconstructions suggest that since the onset of the Late
Jurassic and during the whole Cretaceous Period, the landmasses of North America and …

Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod …

PD Mannion, P Upchurch, D Schwarz… - Zoological Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, southeastern Africa, records a
rich sauropod fauna, including the diplodocoids Dicraeosaurus and Tornieria, and the …

[HTML][HTML] New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography

SF Poropat, PD Mannion, P Upchurch, SA Hocknull… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Australian dinosaurs have played a rare but controversial role in the debate surrounding the
effect of Gondwanan break-up on Cretaceous dinosaur distribution. Major spatiotemporal …

Postcranial axial skeleton of Europasaurus holgeri (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Jurassic of Germany: implications for sauropod ontogeny and …

JL Carballido, PM Sander - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Neosauropods are well represented in the Late Jurassic fossil record, both in Laurasia and
Gondwana. Among Macronaria, Europasaurus represents one of the most basal forms of …

[HTML][HTML] A new Middle Jurassic diplodocoid suggests an earlier dispersal and diversification of sauropod dinosaurs

X Xu, P Upchurch, PD Mannion, PM Barrett… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The fragmentation of the supercontinent Pangaea has been suggested to have had a
profound impact on Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate distributions. One current paradigm is …

[图书][B] Jurassic West: the dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and their world

J Foster - 2020 - books.google.com
The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, formed one hundred and fifty million
years ago and running from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American …

[HTML][HTML] Revision of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae Hocknull et al. 2009 from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia: implications for Gondwanan …

SF Poropat, P Upchurch, PD Mannion, SA Hocknull… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
The osteology of Diamantinasaurus matildae, the most complete Cretaceous sauropod
described from Australia to date, is comprehensively reassessed. The preparation of …