[HTML][HTML] Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem

JP Rio, PD Mannion - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
First appearing in the latest Cretaceous, Crocodylia is a clade of semi-aquatic, predatory
reptiles, defined by the last common ancestor of extant alligators, caimans, crocodiles, and …

The accuracy and precision of body mass estimation in non‐avian dinosaurs

NE Campione, DC Evans - Biological Reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Inferring the body mass of fossil taxa, such as non‐avian dinosaurs, provides a powerful tool
for interpreting physiological and ecological properties, as well as the ability to study these …

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 …

New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography

SF Poropat, PD Mannion, P Upchurch, SA Hocknull… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Australian dinosaurs have played a rare but controversial role in the debate surrounding the
effect of Gondwanan break-up on Cretaceous dinosaur distribution. Major spatiotemporal …

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 …

The influence of juvenile dinosaurs on community structure and diversity

K Schroeder, SK Lyons, FA Smith - Science, 2021 - science.org
Despite dominating biodiversity in the Mesozoic, dinosaurs were not speciose. Oviparity
constrained even gigantic dinosaurs to less than 15 kg at birth; growth through multiple …

Taxonomic identification of isolated theropod teeth: the case of the shed tooth crown associated with Aerosteon (Theropoda: Megaraptora) and the dentition of …

C Hendrickx, E Tschopp, M d Ezcurra - Cretaceous Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Shed teeth are usually the most abundant theropod material on a dinosaur fossil site and
are constantly reported in the literature. Although new quantitative techniques have …

A new Middle Jurassic diplodocoid suggests an earlier dispersal and diversification of sauropod dinosaurs

X Xu, P Upchurch, PD Mannion, PM Barrett… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The fragmentation of the supercontinent Pangaea has been suggested to have had a
profound impact on Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate distributions. One current paradigm is …

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 …

Fossils of the oldest diplodocoid dinosaur suggest India was a major centre for neosauropod radiation

S Bajpai, D Datta, P Pandey, T Ghosh, K Kumar… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Early Jurassic and Cretaceous deposits of India are known for their diverse
sauropod fauna, while little is known from the Middle and Late Jurassic. Here we report the …