Morphology forms the most fundamental level of data in vertebrate palaeontology because it
is through interpretations of morphology that taxa are identified, creating the basis for broad …

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 …

Interpreting key ecological parameters, such as diet, of extinct organisms without the benefit
of direct observation or explicit fossil evidence poses a formidable challenge for …

Despite dominating biodiversity in the Mesozoic, dinosaurs were not speciose. Oviparity
constrained even gigantic dinosaurs to less than 15 kg at birth; growth through multiple …

Stegosaur tracks were unknown until the identification of Deltapodus more than 20 years
ago. Currently, the Iberian Peninsula, especially Teruel Province, is one of the areas …

Alvarezsauria is a group of early-branching maniraptoran theropods that are distributed
globally from the Late Jurassic to the latest Cretaceous. Despite recent increases in the …

Although diplodocoid sauropods from Africa and the Americas are well known, their
European record remains largely neglected. Here we redescribe Dinheirosaurus …

Since 2002 a number of sites containing stegosaurian remains (bones and tracks) have
been discovered in the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian–Berriasian) in the Province …

The armoured dinosaurs (Thyreophora) were a significant component of Mesozoic terrestrial
ecosystems, appearing in the earliest Jurassic and surviving until the latest Cretaceous, and …

Eurypoda, the major radiation of armoured dinosaurs, comprises the ankylosaurs and their
sister group, the stegosaurs. As the earliest-branching major clade of ornithischian …