A brief review of non-avian dinosaur biogeography: state-of-the-art and prospectus

P Upchurch, AA Chiarenza - Biology Letters, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Dinosaurs potentially originated in the mid-palaeolatitudes of Gondwana 245–235 million
years ago (Ma) and may have been restricted to cooler, humid areas by low-latitude arid …

A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis on early ornithischian evolution

AO Fonseca, IJ Reid, A Venner… - Journal of Systematic …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Resolving the evolutionary relationships of early diverging ('basal') ornithischian dinosaurs
is a challenging topic in palaeontology, with multiple competing hypotheses on the …

New sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Morella (Spain) provides new insights on the evolutionary history of Iberian somphospondylan titanosauriforms

P Mocho, F Escaso, JM Gasulla… - Zoological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
A new somphospondylan titanosauriform from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain is described
from the remains found at the Sant Antoni de la Vespa site (upper Barremian Arcillas de …

An annotated checklist of Australian Mesozoic tetrapods

SF Poropat, PR Bell, LJ Hart… - … Australasian Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In 2020, the Australasian palaeontological association Australasian Palaeontologists (AAP)
joined the Australian government-supported Australian National Species List (auNSL) …

A Spanish saltasauroid titanosaur reveals Europe as a melting pot of endemic and immigrant sauropods in the Late Cretaceous

P Mocho, F Escaso, F Marcos-Fernández… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
A new lithostrotian titanosaur, Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra gen. et sp. nov., is described
based on a single partial skeleton from the late Campanian-early Maastrichtian fossil-site of …

Fossil vertebrates from the Cerro Fortaleza Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

FL Agnolín, GÁ Herrera, MA Rolando, M Motta… - Cretaceous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cerro Fortaleza Formation is a stratigraphic unit that crops out near the Cerro
Fortaleza hill, northwestern Santa Cruz province, Argentina. This unit has been well-known …

A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China

F Han, L Yang, F Lou, C Sullivan, X Xu… - Journal of Systematic …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Large quadrupedal sauropod dinosaurs of the group Titanosauria were globally distributed
in the Late Cretaceous. Many titanosaurian species have been discovered in eastern Asia …

New teeth of a basal Macronarian (Sauropoda) from the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition of Spain

FT Fernández-Baldor, P Huerta… - Journal of Iberian …, 2024 - Springer
In this work, a dentary, and several teeth from the Valdepalazuelos-Tenadas del Carrascal
site (Burgos, Spain) are studied. Geologically, this site is situatedat the base of the Rupelo …

[HTML][HTML] New sauropod appendicular remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Romania: Accessing the morphological variability

P Mocho, A Pérez-García, VA Codrea - Cretaceous Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Upper Cretaceous sauropod fossil record from Romania is abundant, mostly
originated from the Maastrichtian deposits of the western-southwestern margin of the …

A new sauropod dinosaur hindlimb from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight, UK

RR Higgins, PD Mannion… - Royal Society Open …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Barremian-aged Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, UK, offers a globally significant
glimpse into the sauropod dinosaur faunas of the early Cretaceous. These deposits have …