Pterosaurs were the first flying vertebrates and formed important components of terrestrial
and marginal marine ecosystems during the Mesozoic. They became extinct during the …

The Tendaguru Formation of south-eastern Tanzania has yielded the only diverse theropod
fauna known from the Late Jurassic of Gondwana. Theropod remains have been recovered …

Despite increasing concerns about the effect of sampling biases on our reading of the fossil
record, few studies have considered the completeness of the fossil remains themselves, and …

A new oviraptorid is described on the basis of a partial forelimb collected from the Upper
Cretaceous redbeds of Bayan Mandahu, Inner Mongolia. Machairasaurus leptonychus, gen …

Sauropodomorpha represents an important group of Mesozoic megaherbivores, and
includes the largest terrestrial animals ever known. It was the first dinosaur group to become …

Both the body fossils and trackways of sauropod dinosaurs indicate that they inhabited a
range of inland and coastal environments during their 160-Myr evolutionary history …

Peloneustes philarchus is the most abundant pliosaurid from the Peterborough Member of
the Oxford Clay Formation (Callovian) of the UK. It is a valid taxon possessing a unique …

A forelimb of a new sauropod dinosaur (Angolatitan adamastor n. gen. et sp.) from the Late
Turonian of Iembe (Bengo Province) represents the first dinosaur discovery in Angola, and is …

Thin fossil eggshell from Upper Cretaceous deposits of Europe, characterized by nodular
ornamentation similar to modern gekkotan eggshell, has mostly been interpreted as …

Abstract The Lower Cretaceous Wealden Supergroup of southern England yields a diverse
assemblage of theropod dinosaurs, its taxa being represented by fragments in addition to …