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Important Contributions of the South American Record to the Understanding of Dinosaur Reproduction
(New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 2016-06)
South American fossil eggs display a very rich record in the Cretaceous, which permits an understanding of dinosaur reproduction. In this paper I review all dinosaur ootaxa described at the moment and discuss their ...
The precise temporal calibration of dinosaur origins
(National Academy of Sciences, 2016-01)
Dinosaurs have been major components of ecosystems for over 200 million years. Although different macroevolutionary scenarios exist to explain the Triassic origin and subsequent rise to dominance of dinosaurs and their ...
Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
(Wiley, 2015)
Flying Dinosaurs is a timely popular work, focusing especially on the latest research related to the dinosaur-bird link. This short and enjoyable book provides an updated summary of discoveries such as dinosaurs preserved ...
The first dinosaur tracksite from Abruzzi (Monte Cagno, Central Apennines, Italy)
(Academic Press Ltd - Elsevier Science Ltd, 2017-05)
A new Lower Cretaceous (lower Aptian) dinosaur tracksite, from the eastern side of Monte Cagno (Abruzzi, Italy), is described. Different styles of track formation are represented on the site surface. Most of the footprints ...
Tithonian age of dinosaur fossils in central Patagonian, Chile: U–Pb SHRIMP geochronology
(Springer, 2016-11)
Three Tithonian concordant U–Pb SHRIMP zircon ages of 148.7 ± 1.4, 147.9 ± 1.5 and 147.0 ± 1.0 from tuffs intercalated in a clastic sedimentary succession with exceptional dinosaur bones including the new taxon Chilesaurus ...
A new primitive Neornithischian dinosaur from the Jurassic of Patagonia with gut contents
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017-02)
We describe a new species of an ornithischian dinosaur, Isaberrysaura mollensis gen. et sp. nov. The specimen, consisting in an almost complete skull and incomplete postcranium was collected from the marine-deltaic deposits ...
Biomechanical comments about Triassic dinosaurs from Brazil
(USP, 2012)
Triassic dinosaurs of Brazil are found in Santa Maria and Caturrita formations, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. There are three species known from the Santa Maria Formation (Staurikosaurus pricei, Saturnalia tupiniquim ...