Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism

PM Sander, A Christian, M Clauss… - Biological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Herbivory and body size: allometries of diet quality and gastrointestinal physiology, and implications for herbivore ecology and dinosaur gigantism

M Clauss, P Steuer, DWH Müller, D Codron, J Hummel - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Digestive physiology has played a prominent role in explanations for terrestrial herbivore
body size evolution and size-driven diversification and niche differentiation. This is based on …

A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)

E Tschopp, O Mateus, RBJ Benson - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
Diplodocidae are among the best known sauropod dinosaurs. Several species were
described in the late 1800s or early 1900s from the Morrison Formation of North America …

Structural extremes in a Cretaceous dinosaur

PC Sereno, JA Wilson, LM Witmer, JA Whitlock… - PloS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Fossils of the Early Cretaceous dinosaur, Nigersaurus taqueti, document for the first time the
cranial anatomy of a rebbachisaurid sauropod. Its extreme adaptations for herbivory at …

[HTML][HTML] The distribution of dental features in non-avian theropod dinosaurs: Taxonomic potential, degree of homoplasy, and major evolutionary trends

C Hendrickx, O Mateus, M da Lourinhã, R Araújo… - 2019 - palaeo-electronica.org
Isolated theropod teeth are some of the most common fossils in the dinosaur fossil record
and are continually reported in the literature. Recently developed quantitative methods have …

[KİTAP][B] Nature: an economic history

GJ Vermeij - 2009 - degruyter.com
From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally
limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought--economics, evolution …

A phylogenetic analysis of Diplodocoidea (Saurischia: Sauropoda)

JA Whitlock - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Diplodocoidea includes some of the first well-known sauropod dinosaurs, including such
late 19th century and early 20th century discoveries as Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, and …

First complete sauropod dinosaur skull from the Cretaceous of the Americas and the evolution of sauropod dentition

D Chure, BB Britt, JA Whitlock, JA Wilson - Naturwissenschaften, 2010 - Springer
Sauropod dinosaur bones are common in Mesozoic terrestrial sediments, but sauropod
skulls are exceedingly rare—cranial materials are known for less than one third of sauropod …

Early ornithischian dinosaurs: the Triassic record

RB Irmis, WG Parker, SJ Nesbitt, J Liu - Historical Biology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Ornithischian dinosaurs are one of the most taxonomically diverse dinosaur clades during
the Mesozoic, yet their origin and early diversification remain virtually unknown. In recent …

A new transitional sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of South Africa and the evolution of sauropod feeding and quadrupedalism

AM Yates, MF Bonnan, J Neveling… - … of the Royal …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Aardonyx celestae gen. et sp. nov. is described from the upper Elliot Formation (Early
Jurassic) of South Africa. It can be diagnosed by autapomorphies of the skull, particularly the …