Evolution of the carnivorous dinosaurs during the Cretaceous: the evidence from Patagonia

FE Novas, FL Agnolín, MD Ezcurra, J Porfiri… - Cretaceous …, 2013 - Elsevier
Patagonia has yielded the most comprehensive fossil record of Cretaceous theropods from
Gondwana, consisting of 31 nominal species belonging to singleton taxa and six families …

The phylogeny of tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

MT Carrano, RBJ Benson… - Journal of Systematic …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Tetanuran theropods represent the majority of Mesozoic predatory dinosaur diversity and
the lineage leading to extant Aves. Thus their history is relevant to understanding the …

Cretaceous terrestrial beds from the Neuquén Basin (Argentina) and their tetrapod assemblages

HA Leanza, S Apesteguıa, FE Novas… - Cretaceous …, 2004 - Elsevier
The Cretaceous terrestrial strata of the Neuquén Basin (northern Patagonia, Argentina) are
described together with their tetrapod records. Six local tetrapod assemblages are identified …

CRANIOFACIAL ANATOMY OF MAJUNGASAURUS CRENATISSIMUS (THEROPODA: ABELISAURIDAE) FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF MADAGASCAR

SD Sampson, LM Witmer - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Recent fieldwork in the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maevarano Formation, northwest
Madagascar, has yielded important new skull material of the abelisaurid theropod …

The phylogeny of ceratosauria (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

MT Carrano, SD Sampson - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Recent discoveries and analyses have drawn increased attention to Ceratosauria, a
taxonomically and morphologically diverse group of basal theropods. By the time of its first …

New dinosaurs link southern landmasses in the Mid–Cretaceous

PC Sereno, JA Wilson… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Abelisauroid predators have been recorded almost exclusively from South America, India
and Madagascar, a distribution thought to document persistent land connections exclusive …

A Jurassic ceratosaur from China helps clarify avian digital homologies

X Xu, JM Clark, J Mo, J Choiniere, CA Forster… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Theropods have traditionally been assumed to have lost manual digits from the lateral side
inward, which differs from the bilateral reduction pattern seen in other tetrapod groups. This …

New materials and an overview of Cretaceous vertebrates from the Chubut Group of the Golfo San Jorge Basin, central Patagonia, Argentina

LM Ibiricu, GA Casal, RD Martínez, BN Alvarez… - Journal of South …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present an updated revision of fossil vertebrates from the Chubut Group,
Golfo San Jorge Basin, while also describing some new remains. Extensive exposures of …

[PDF][PDF] A new carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina

RA Coria, PJ Currie - Geodiversitas, 2006 - app.ingemmet.gob.pe
ABSTRACT A new carcharodontosaurid theropod from the Huincul Formation (Aptian-
Cenomanian, Upper Cretaceous) of Neuquén Province, Argentina, is described …

A Middle Jurassic abelisaurid from Patagonia and the early diversification of theropod dinosaurs

D Pol, OWM Rauhut - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Abelisaurids are a clade of large, bizarre predatory dinosaurs, most notable for their high,
short skulls and extremely reduced forelimbs. They were common in Gondwana during the …