The evolution of methods for establishing evolutionary timescales

PCJ Donoghue, Z Yang - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The fossil record is well known to be incomplete. Read literally, it provides a distorted view of
the history of species divergence and extinction, because different species have different …

An overview of the appendicular skeletal anatomy of South American titanosaurian sauropods, with definition of a newly recognized clade

BJG Riga, MC Lamanna, A Otero… - Anais da Academia …, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
In the last two decades, the number of phylogenetically informative anatomical characters
recognized in the appendicular skeleton of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs has increased …

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 …

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 …

Climatic constraints on the biogeographic history of Mesozoic dinosaurs

AA Chiarenza, PD Mannion, A Farnsworth, MT Carrano… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Dinosaurs dominated Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems globally. However, whereas a pole-to-
pole geographic distribution characterized ornithischians and theropods, sauropods were …

Osteology of the Late Cretaceous Argentinean sauropod dinosaur Mendozasaurus neguyelap: implications for basal titanosaur relationships

BJ Gonzalez Riga, PD Mannion… - Zoological Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur Mendozasaurus neguyelap is represented by several
partial skeletons from a single locality within the Coniacian (lower Upper Cretaceous) Sierra …

Bizarre dermal armour suggests the first African ankylosaur

SCR Maidment, SJ Strachan, D Ouarhache… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Ankylosauria is a diverse clade of armoured dinosaurs whose members were important
constituents of many Cretaceous faunas. Phylogenetic analyses imply that the clade …

Repeated evolution of divergent modes of herbivory in non-avian dinosaurs

DJ Button, LE Zanno - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Summary The importance of adaptation [1–4] versus organizational constraints [5–7] in
sha** common macroevolutionary trends remains unclear [8]. The fossil record is key to …

The earliest known titanosaur sauropod dinosaur

PA Gallina, JI Canale, JL Carballido - Ameghiniana, 2021 - BioOne
The titanosaur sauropod record of Patagonia, mainly recovered from Upper Cretaceous
strata, is probably the richest worldwide. Here we present a new sauropod dinosaur …

Bayesian estimation of fossil phylogenies and the evolution of early to middle Paleozoic crinoids (Echinodermata)

DF Wright - Journal of Paleontology, 2017 - cambridge.org
Knowledge of phylogenetic relationships among species is fundamental to understanding
basic patterns in evolution and underpins nearly all research programs in biology and …