Dinosaur News Update: 11 March 2019
Ecological niche modelling does not support climatically-driven dinosaur diversity decline before the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08997-2
Fossil Friday – dinosaur limb bone.
Feeding traces attributable to juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex offer insight into ontogenetic dietary trends.
https://peerj.com/articles/6573/
Aquatic adaptation in the skull of carnivorous dinosaurs (Theropoda: Spinosauridae) and the evolution of aquatic habits in spinosaurids.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667117303427
A new dicraeosaurid sauropod from the Lower Cretaceous (Mulichinco Formation, Valanginian, Neuquén Basin) of Argentina.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667118300405
Different trackway patterns in titanosaur sauropods: Analysis of new Titanopodus tracks from the Upper Cretaceous of Mendoza, Neuquén Basin, Argentina.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667118301137
Maiasaura (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) Tibia Osteohistology Reveals Non-Annual Cortical Vascular Rings in Young of the Year.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2019.00050/abstract
Ontogenetic stages of ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus in bone histology.
http://app.pan.pl/article/item/app005592018.html
Comment on Brocklehurst et al.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.181872
Effects of body plan evolution on the hydrodynamic drag and energy requirements of swimming in ichthyosaurs.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2018.2786
Recollections of Dinosaurs Past and Present, the 1980s Exhibition.
http://tetzoo.com/blog/2019/2/25/recollections-of-dinosaurs-past-and-present-the-1980s-exhibition
Introducing Moros intrepidus, the harbinger of doom.
Protoceratops: Beast of the Week
http://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2014/02/protoceratops-prehistoric-animal-of-week.html
The first theropod tracks from the Middle Jurassic of Gansu, Northwest China: new and rare evidence of quadrupedal progression in theropod dinosaurs.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42501-019-0028-4
Franz Nopcsa: the dashing baron who discovered dwarf dinosaurs.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/franz-nopcsa-the-dashing-baron-who-discovered-dwarf-dinosaurs.html
Galleonosaurus dorisae: New dinosaur discovered in Australia.
Fossil Friday – ceratopsian vertebra.
Your Friends The Titanosaurs, part 9: “Campylodon”, Clasmodosaurus, Choconsaurus, and Daxiatitan.
The locomotor and predatory habits of unenlagiines (Theropoda, Paraves): inferences based on morphometric studies and comparisons with Laurasian dromaeosaurids.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/553891v1.abstract?%3Fcollection=
Diminutive fleet-footed tyrannosauroid narrows the 70-million-year gap in the North American fossil record.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0308-7
Anatomy of the dinosaur Pampadromaeus barberenai (Saurischia-Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic Santa Maria Formation of southern Brazil.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0212543
The anatomy and phylogenetic position of the erythrosuchid archosauriform Guchengosuchus shiguaiensis from the earliest Middle Triassic of China.
https://peerj.com/articles/6435/
The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: 3. Jiufengia jiai gen. et sp. nov., a large akidnognathid therocephalian.
https://peerj.com/articles/6463/
How Evolutionary Biologist Emma Schachner Is Helping Explain The Rise Of The Dinosaurs.
Mongolian proto-thief dinosaur had egg-crushing jaws.
Bajadasaurus: Beast of the Week.
http://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2019/02/bahadasaurus-beast-of-week.html
Paravian Phylogeny and the Dinosaur-Bird Transition: An Overview
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2018.00252/full
Life and skeletal reconstructions of a mosasaur Phosphorosaurus using a three-dimensional computer graphics (3D CG) software: a highly promising reconstruction technique for fossil vertebrates.
http://www.town.mukawa.lg.jp/secure/5408/Shinmura_Konishi_2018.pdf
Fossils with Feathers and Philosophy of Science.
https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sysbio/syz010/5315532
A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China.
Baalsaurus mansillai gen. et sp. nov. a new titanosaurian sauropod (Late Cretaceous) from Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina.
A new African Titanosaurian Sauropod Dinosaur from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation (Mtuka Member), Rukwa Rift Basin, Southwestern Tanzania.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0211412
The braincase of Malawisaurus dixeyi (Sauropoda: Titanosauria): A 3D reconstruction of the brain endocast and inner ear.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0211423
A new large Pliosaurid from the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of Sáchica, Boyacá, Colombia.
https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/esrj/article/view/69916
Integrating gross morphology and bone histology to assess skeletal maturity in early dinosauromorphs: new insights from Dromomeron (Archosauria: Dinosauromorpha).
https://peerj.com/articles/6331/
Additional sauropod dinosaur material from the Callovian Oxford Clay Formation, Peterborough, UK: evidence for higher sauropod diversity.
https://peerj.com/articles/6404/
Exquisitely-preserved, high-definition skin traces in diminutive theropod tracks from the Cretaceous of Korea.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-38633-4
Meet T. Rex’s Teeny Cousin Whose Name Means ‘Impending Doom’.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t-rex-cousin-was-about-size-deer-180971543/