Los saurópodos titanosaurios son conocidos por mostrar una notable disparidad de tamaño
corporal, con algunos taxones famosos por acercarse al cenit del tamaño corporal de un …

This study reports the occurrence of pneumosteum (osteohistological structure related to an
avian-like air sac system) in a nanoid (5.7-m-long) saltasaurid titanosaur from Upper …

Studies on pathological fossil bones have allowed improving the knowledge of physiology
and ecology, and consequently the life history of extinct organisms. Among extinct …

Osteohistological evidence is widely used to infer paleobiological traits of fossil vertebrates,
such as ontogeny and growth rates. Mesosaurs, an enigmatic group of aquatic reptiles from …

A Paleontologia tem obtido destaque no cenário nacional e internacional nas últimas
décadas. O Brasil tornou-se polo importante de pesquisas na área e tem contribuído …

Abstract The Bauru Group (Campanian–Maastrichtian) has one of the richest fossil records
of Cretaceous in South America. All dinosaur fossils from this unit were assigned to …

Paleopathological diagnoses provide key information on the macroevolutionary origin of
disease as well as behavioral and physiological inferences that are inaccessible via direct …

Bone fractures are the most common type of injuries preserved in the dinosaur fossil record.
Poor healing of deep lesions could lead to infection and misalignment of the fracture parts …

Objective To analyze the presence of protozoan parasites in bird coprolites from the
Tremembé Formation (Oligocene of the Taubaté Basin). Materials Twenty avian coprolites …

Other than repaired fractures, osteoarthritis, and periosteal reaction, the vertebrate fossil
record has limited evidence of non-osseous diseases. This difficulty in paleontological …