Patagonia has yielded the most comprehensive fossil record of Cretaceous theropods from
Gondwana, consisting of 31 nominal species belonging to singleton taxa and six families …

Improved understanding of tick phylogeny has allowed testing of some biogeographical
patterns. On the basis of both literature data and a meta-analysis of available sequence …

Tetanuran theropods represent the majority of Mesozoic predatory dinosaur diversity and
the lineage leading to extant Aves. Thus their history is relevant to understanding the …

Background Australia's dinosaurian fossil record is exceptionally poor compared to that of
other similar-sized continents. Most taxa are known from fragmentary isolated remains with …

Isolated theropod teeth are some of the most common fossils in the dinosaur fossil record
and are continually reported in the literature. Recently developed quantitative methods have …

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 …

Late Mesozoic palaeobiogeography has been characterized by a distinction between the
northern territories of Laurasia and the southern landmasses of Gondwana. The repeated …

Non-avian theropod dinosaurs attained large body sizes, monopolising terrestrial apex
predator niches in the Jurassic–Cretaceous. From the Middle Jurassic onwards …

Abstract Megalosaurus bucklandii (Dinosauria: Theropoda), the oldest named dinosaur
taxon, from the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) of England, is a valid taxon diagnosed by a …

The assembly of the avian body plan: a 160 million year long process Page 1 Bollettino
della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 57 (1), 2018. Modena The assembly of the avian body …