The latitudinal biodiversity gradient through deep time

PD Mannion, P Upchurch, RBJ Benson… - Trends in ecology & …, 2014 - cell.com
Today, biodiversity decreases from equatorial to polar regions. This is a fundamental pattern
governing the distribution of extant organisms, the understanding of which is critical to …

Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the J urassic–C retaceous transition

RBJ Benson, PS Druckenmiller - Biological Reviews, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Marine and terrestrial animals show a mosaic of lineage extinctions and diversifications
during the J urassic–C retaceous transition. However, despite its potential importance in …

Calibrating the zenith of dinosaur diversity in the Campanian of the Western Interior Basin by CA-ID-TIMS U–Pb geochronology

J Ramezani, TL Beveridge, RR Rogers, DA Eberth… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The spectacular fossil fauna and flora preserved in the Upper Cretaceous terrestrial strata of
North America's Western Interior Basin record an exceptional peak in the diversification of …

A basal dinosaur from the dawn of the dinosaur era in southwestern Pangaea

RN Martinez, PC Sereno, OA Alcober, CE Colombi… - science, 2011 - science.org
Upper Triassic rocks in northwestern Argentina preserve the most complete record of
dinosaurs before their rise to dominance in the Early Jurassic. Here, we describe a …

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 …

The extinction of the dinosaurs

SL Brusatte, RJ Butler, PM Barrett… - Biological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐avian dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago, geologically coincident with the
impact of a large bolide (comet or asteroid) during an interval of massive volcanic eruptions …

High-precision U–Pb geochronology and a new chronostratigraphy for the Cañadón Asfalto Basin, Chubut, central Patagonia: Implications for terrestrial faunal and …

R Cúneo, J Ramezani, R Scasso, D Pol, I Escapa… - Gondwana …, 2013 - Elsevier
The fluvial, lacustrine and tuffaceous sedimentary succession of the Cañadón Asfalto
continental basin exposed in the Argentinean Chubut Province of central Patagonia …

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 …

Biotic and environmental dynamics through the L ate J urassic–E arly C retaceous transition: evidence for protracted faunal and ecological turnover

JP Tennant, PD Mannion, P Upchurch… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The L ate J urassic to E arly C retaceous interval represents a time of environmental
upheaval and cataclysmic events, combined with disruptions to terrestrial and marine …

Earliest evidence of herd-living and age segregation amongst dinosaurs

D Pol, AC Mancuso, RMH Smith, CA Marsicano… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Sauropodomorph dinosaurs dominated the herbivorous niches during the first 40 million
years of dinosaur history (Late Triassic–Early Jurassic), yet palaeobiological factors that …