Early Cretaceous polar biotas of Victoria, southeastern Australia—an overview of research to date

SF Poropat, SK Martin, AMP Tosolini… - Alcheringa: An …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Poropat, SF, Martin, SK, Tosolini, A.-MP, Wagstaff, BE, Bean, LB, Kear, BP, Vickers-Rich, P.
& Rich, TH, May 2018. Early Cretaceous polar biotas of Victoria, southeastern Australia—an …

Earliest evidence for fruit consumption and potential seed dispersal by birds

H Hu, Y Wang, PG McDonald, S Wroe, JK O'Connor… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Abstract The Early Cretaceous diversification of birds was a major event in the history of
terrestrial ecosystems, occurring during the earliest phase of the Cretaceous Terrestrial …

Pre-modern birds: avian divergences in the Mesozoic

JK O'Connor, LM Chiappe, A Bell - Living dinosaurs: the …, 2011 - books.google.com
Birds are the most diverse group of living land vertebrates on the planet, yet the origin of the
clade is one of the most heated and longest debates in scientific history (Witmer, 2001 …

[HTML][HTML] Revision of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae Hocknull et al. 2009 from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia: implications for Gondwanan …

SF Poropat, P Upchurch, PD Mannion, SA Hocknull… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
The osteology of Diamantinasaurus matildae, the most complete Cretaceous sauropod
described from Australia to date, is comprehensively reassessed. The preparation of …

Theropod fauna from southern Australia indicates high polar diversity and climate-driven dinosaur provinciality

RBJ Benson, TH Rich, P Vickers-Rich, M Hall - PLoS One, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The Early Cretaceous fauna of Victoria, Australia, provides unique data on the composition
of high latitude southern hemisphere dinosaurs. We describe and review theropod dinosaur …

New small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Neornithischia) from the early cretaceous wonthaggi formation (Strzelecki Group) of the Australian-Antarctic rift system …

MC Herne, JP Nair, AR Evans… - Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Flat Rocks locality in the Wonthaggi Formation (Strzelecki Group) of the
Gippsland Basin, southeastern Australia, hosts fossils of a late Barremian vertebrate fauna …

[HTML][HTML] Pennaraptoran theropod dinosaurs past progress and new frontiers

M Pittman, X Xu - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2020 - BioOne
This chapter will cover clade definitions, the relationships within clades as well as the
occasional controversial relationships between different clades. Phylogenies arising from a …

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) …

The biogeography of coelurosaurian theropods and its impact on their evolutionary history

A Ding, M Pittman, P Upchurch, J O'Connor, DJ Field… - 2020 - repository.cam.ac.uk
The Coelurosauria are a group of mostly feathered theropods that gave rise to birds, the only
dinosaurians that survived the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event and are still found …

Earliest known Gondwanan bird tracks: Wonthaggi Formation (Early Cretaceous), Victoria, Australia

AJ Martin, M Lowery, M Hall, P Vickers-Rich, TH Rich… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The fossil record for Cretaceous birds in Australia has been limited to rare skeletal material,
feathers, and two tracks, a paucity shared with other Gondwanan landmasses. Hence the …