Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism

PM Sander, A Christian, M Clauss… - Biological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods were the
largest terrestrial animals ever, surpassing the largest herbivorous mammals by an order of …

Testing the effect of the rock record on diversity: a multidisciplinary approach to elucidating the generic richness of sauropodomorph dinosaurs through time

PD Mannion, P Upchurch, MT Carrano… - Biological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The accurate reconstruction of palaeobiodiversity patterns is central to a detailed
understanding of the macroevolutionary history of a group of organisms. However, there is …

A new giant titanosaur sheds light on body mass evolution among sauropod dinosaurs

JL Carballido, D Pol, A Otero… - … of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Titanosauria was the most diverse and successful lineage of sauropod dinosaurs. This clade
had its major radiation during the middle Early Cretaceous and survived up to the end of that …

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 …

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 …

The early evolution of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs

MD D'EMIC - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Titanosauriformes was a globally distributed, long-lived clade of dinosaurs that contains
both the largest and smallest known sauropods. These common and diverse …

[HTML][HTML] Island life in the Cretaceous-faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European …

Z Csiki-Sava, E Buffetaut, A Ősi, X Pereda-Suberbiola… - ZooKeys, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The Late Cretaceous was a time of tremendous global change, as the final stages
of the Age of Dinosaurs were shaped by climate and sea level fluctuations and witness to …

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 …

Detrital zircon age constraints for the Winton Formation, Queensland: contextualizing Australia's Late Cretaceous dinosaur faunas

RT Tucker, EM Roberts, Y Hu, AIS Kemp… - Gondwana …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Winton Formation provides an important snapshot of Australia's late Mesozoic terrestrial
biota, boasting a vertebrate fauna that includes dinosaurs, crocodyliforms, aquatic …

Bone histology indicates insular dwarfism in a new Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur

P Martin Sander, O Mateus, T Laven, N Knötschke - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to inhabit the land, with truly gigantic
forms in at least three lineages,,. Small species with an adult body mass less than five …