Biology & Life Sciences

Paleontology

Published November 8, 2017 Curated Collections

This collection represents those articles published in PLOS journals on the general topic of Paleontology (the study of fossils and of life forms that existed in past geological periods). The discipline is very broad, overlapping with many fields including biology and geology, and the reported findings span several geological eras. These studies all contribute to expanding our understanding of organisms from multiple phyla. We welcome submissions in this field.

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PLOS ONE Cryptic Disc Structures Resembling Ediacaran Discoidal Fossils from the Lower Silurian Hellefjord Schist, Arctic Norway
October 26, 2016 Christopher L. Kirkland, Breandán A. MacGabhann, Brian L. Kirkland, J. Stephen Daly
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10.1371/journal.pone.0177948

PLOS ONE The African cynodont Aleodon (Cynodontia, Probainognathia) in the Triassic of southern Brazil and its biostratigraphic significance
June 14, 2017 Agustín G. Martinelli, Christian F. Kammerer, Tomaz P. Melo, Voltaire D. Paes Neto, Ana Maria Ribeiro, Átila A. S. Da-Rosa, Cesar L. Schultz, Marina Bento Soares
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10.1371/journal.pone.0176773

PLOS ONE Mosasauroid phylogeny under multiple phylogenetic methods provides new insights on the evolution of aquatic adaptations in the group
May 3, 2017 Tiago R. Simões, Oksana Vernygora, Ilaria Paparella, Paulina Jimenez-Huidobro, Michael W. Caldwell
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10.1371/journal.pone.0173527

PLOS ONE Craniodental and humeral morphology of a new species of Masrasector (Teratodontinae, Hyaenodonta, Placentalia) from the late Eocene of Egypt and locomotor diversity in hyaenodonts
April 19, 2017 Matthew R. Borths, Erik R. Seiffert
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10.1371/journal.pone.0174693

PLOS ONE An archosauromorph dominated ichnoassemblage in fluvial settings from the late Early Triassic of the Catalan Pyrenees (NE Iberian Peninsula)
April 19, 2017 Eudald Mujal, Josep Fortuny, Arnau Bolet, Oriol Oms, José Ángel López
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10.1371/journal.pone.0170929

PLOS ONE A new osteichthyan from the late Silurian of Yunnan, China
March 8, 2017 Brian Choo, Min Zhu, Qingming Qu, Xiaobo Yu, Liantao Jia, Wenjin Zhao
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10.1371/journal.pone.0171919

PLOS ONE Two new ootaxa from the late Jurassic: The oldest record of crocodylomorph eggs, from the Lourinhã Formation, Portugal
March 8, 2017 João Russo, Octávio Mateus, Marco Marzola, Ausenda Balbino
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10.1371/journal.pone.0172409

PLOS ONE A new genus and species of marine catfishes (Siluriformes; Ariidae) from the upper Eocene Birket Qarun Formation, Wadi El-Hitan, Egypt
March 1, 2017 Sanaa E. El-Sayed, Mahmoud A. Kora, Hesham M. Sallam, Kerin M. Claeson, Erik R. Seiffert, Mohammed S. Antar
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10.1371/journal.pone.0172759

PLOS ONE Exceptionally prolonged tooth formation in elasmosaurid plesiosaurians
February 27, 2017 Benjamin P. Kear, Dennis Larsson, Johan Lindgren, Martin Kundrát
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10.1371/journal.pone.0160617

PLOS ONE Knoetschkesuchus langenbergensis gen. nov. sp. nov., a new atoposaurid crocodyliform from the Upper Jurassic Langenberg Quarry (Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany), and its relationships to Theriosuchus
February 15, 2017 Daniela Schwarz, Maik Raddatz, Oliver Wings
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10.1371/journal.pone.0169885

PLOS ONE Empirical and Bayesian approaches to fossil-only divergence times: A study across three reptile clades
February 10, 2017 Alan H. Turner, Adam C. Pritchard, Nicholas J. Matzke
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10.1371/journal.pone.0169971

PLOS ONE A New Ophthalmosaurid (Ichthyosauria) from Svalbard, Norway, and Evolution of the Ichthyopterygian Pelvic Girdle
January 25, 2017 Lene Liebe Delsett, Aubrey J. Roberts, Patrick S. Druckenmiller, Jørn H. Hurum
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10.1371/journal.pone.0163373

PLOS ONE A New Giant Titanosauria (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous Bauru Group, Brazil
October 5, 2016 Kamila L. N. Bandeira, Felipe Medeiros Simbras, Elaine Batista Machado, Diogenes de Almeida Campos, Gustavo R. Oliveira, Alexander W. A. Kellner
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10.1371/journal.pone.0162945

PLOS ONE Two New Cynodonts (Therapsida) from the Middle-Early Late Triassic of Brazil and Comments on South American Probainognathians
October 5, 2016 Agustín G. Martinelli, Marina Bento Soares, Cibele Schwanke
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10.1371/journal.pone.0162692

PLOS ONE A Basal Tapejarine (Pterosauria; Pterodactyloidea; Tapejaridae) from the Crato Formation, Early Cretaceous of Brazil
September 21, 2016 Rodrigo Vargas Pêgas, Maria Eduarda de Castro Leal, Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner
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10.1371/journal.pone.0162270

PLOS ONE Measures of Relative Dentary Strength in Rancho La Brea Smilodon fatalis over Time
September 6, 2016 Wendy J. Binder, Kassaundra S. Cervantes, Julie A. Meachen
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10.1371/journal.pone.0161823

PLOS ONE Cranial Morphology of the Carboniferous-Permian Tetrapod Brachydectes newberryi (Lepospondyli, Lysorophia): New Data from µCT
August 26, 2016 Jason D. Pardo, Jason S. Anderson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0161540

PLOS ONE Placoderm Assemblage from the Tetrapod-Bearing Locality of Strud (Belgium, Upper Famennian) Provides Evidence for a Fish Nursery
August 23, 2016 Sébastien Olive, Gaël Clément, Edward B. Daeschler, Vincent Dupret
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10.1371/journal.pone.0161457

PLOS ONE Cranial Bosses of Choerosaurus dejageri (Therapsida, Therocephalia): Earliest Evidence of Cranial Display Structures in Eutheriodonts
August 22, 2016 Julien Benoit, Paul R. Manger, Vincent Fernandez, Bruce S. Rubidge
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10.1371/journal.pone.0158962

PLOS ONE Vertebral Adaptations to Large Body Size in Theropod Dinosaurs
July 21, 2016 John P. Wilson, D. Cary Woodruff, Jacob D. Gardner, Holley M. Flora, John R. Horner, Chris L. Organ
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10.1371/journal.pone.0157973

PLOS ONE A New Megaraptoran Dinosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda, Megaraptoridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia
July 20, 2016 Rodolfo A. Coria, Philip J. Currie
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10.1371/journal.pone.0157793

PLOS ONE An Unusual New Theropod with a Didactyl Manus from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina
July 13, 2016 Sebastián Apesteguía, Nathan D. Smith, Rubén Juárez Valieri, Peter J. Makovicky
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10.1371/journal.pone.0158448

PLOS ONE Diverse Aquatic Adaptations in Nothosaurus spp. (Sauropterygia)—Inferences from Humeral Histology and Microanatomy
July 8, 2016 Nicole Klein, P. Martin Sander, Anna Krahl, Torsten M. Scheyer, Alexandra Houssaye
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10.1371/journal.pone.0158334

PLOS ONE Multivariate and Cladistic Analyses of Isolated Teeth Reveal Sympatry of Theropod Dinosaurs in the Late Jurassic of Northern Germany
July 6, 2016 Oliver Gerke, Oliver Wings
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10.1371/journal.pone.0157699

PLOS ONE Keratin Durability Has Implications for the Fossil Record: Results from a 10 Year Feather Degradation Experiment
July 6, 2016 Alison E. Moyer, Wenxia Zheng, Mary H. Schweitzer
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10.1371/journal.pone.0157528

PLOS ONE Osteology of Carnufex carolinensis (Archosauria: Psuedosuchia) from the Pekin Formation of North Carolina and Its Implications for Early Crocodylomorph Evolution
June 15, 2016 Susan M. Drymala, Lindsay E. Zanno
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10.1371/journal.pone.0157585

PLOS ONE Assessing the Control of Preservational Environment on Taphonomic and Ecological Patterns in an Oligocene Mammal Fauna from Badlands National Park, South Dakota
June 15, 2016 Paige K. Wilson, Jason R. Moore
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10.1371/journal.pone.0155000

PLOS ONE A New Dicynodont (Therapsida: Anomodontia) from the Permian of Southern Brazil and Its Implications for Bidentalian Origins
May 25, 2016 Alessandra D. S. Boos, Christian F. Kammerer, Cesar L. Schultz, Marina B. Soares, Ana L. R. Ilha
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10.1371/journal.pone.0154218

PLOS ONE Spiclypeus shipporum gen. et sp. nov., a Boldly Audacious New Chasmosaurine Ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Judith River Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Campanian) of Montana, USA
May 18, 2016 Jordan C. Mallon, Christopher J. Ott, Peter L. Larson, Edward M. Iuliano, David C. Evans
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10.1371/journal.pone.0153834

PLOS ONE A New Basal Salamandroid (Amphibia, Urodela) from the Late Jurassic of Qinglong, Hebei Province, China
May 4, 2016 Jia Jia, Ke-Qin Gao
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10.1371/journal.pone.0151661

PLOS ONE A Basal Lithostrotian Titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) with a Complete Skull: Implications for the Evolution and Paleobiology of Titanosauria
April 26, 2016 Rubén D. F. Martínez, Matthew C. Lamanna, Fernando E. Novas, Ryan C. Ridgely, Gabriel A. Casal, Javier E. Martínez, Javier R. Vita, Lawrence M. Witmer
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10.1371/journal.pone.0153915

PLOS ONE New Miocene Fossils and the History of Penguins in Australia
April 26, 2016 Travis Park, Erich M. G. Fitzgerald, Stephen J. Gallagher, Ellyn Tomkins, Tony Allan
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10.1371/journal.pone.0153446

PLOS ONE Flapping before Flight: High Resolution, Three-Dimensional Skeletal Kinematics of Wings and Legs during Avian Development
April 21, 2016 Ashley M. Heers, David B. Baier, Brandon E. Jackson, Kenneth P. Dial
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10.1371/journal.pone.0146221

PLOS ONE Osteopathology in Rhinocerotidae from 50 Million Years to the Present
February 3, 2016 Kelsey T. Stilson, Samantha S. B. Hopkins, Edward Byrd Davis
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10.1371/journal.pone.0144358

PLOS ONE A Fish Assemblage from the Middle Eocene from Libya (Dur At-Talah) and the Earliest Record of Modern African Fish Genera
December 16, 2015 Olga Otero, Aurélie Pinton, Henri Cappetta, Sylvain Adnet, Xavier Valentin, Mustapha Salem, Jean-Jacques Jaeger
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10.1371/journal.pone.0144993

PLOS ONE Into Tibet: An Early Pliocene Dispersal of Fossil Zokor (Rodentia: Spalacidae) from Mongolian Plateau to the Hinterland of Tibetan Plateau
December 14, 2015 Qiang Li, Xiaoming Wang
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10.1371/journal.pone.0135551

PLOS ONE Albicetus oxymycterus, a New Generic Name and Redescription of a Basal Physeteroid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Miocene of California, and the Evolution of Body Size in Sperm Whales
December 9, 2015 Alexandra T. Boersma, Nicholas D. Pyenson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0143034

PLOS ONE Systematics and Evolution of the Miocene Three-Horned Palaeomerycid Ruminants (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla)
December 2, 2015 Israel M. Sánchez, Juan L. Cantalapiedra, María Ríos, Victoria Quiralte, Jorge Morales
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10.1371/journal.pone.0140679

PLOS ONE New Crocodyliforms from Southwestern Europe and Definition of a Diverse Clade of European Late Cretaceous Basal Eusuchians
November 4, 2015 Iván Narváez, Christopher A. Brochu, Fernando Escaso, Adán Pérez-García, Francisco Ortega
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10.1371/journal.pone.0154888

PLOS ONE New Material of the Pterosaur Gladocephaloideus Lü et al., 2012 from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China, with Comments on Its Systematic Position
June 1, 2016 Junchang Lü, Martin Kundrát, Caizhi Shen
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10.1371/journal.pone.0150845

PLOS ONE Endocranial Morphology of the Primitive Nodosaurid Dinosaur Pawpawsaurus campbelli from the Early Cretaceous of North America
March 23, 2016 Ariana Paulina Carabajal, Yuong-Nam Lee, Louis Jacobs
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10.1371/journal.pone.0151143

PLOS ONE Spectroscopic Studies on Organic Matter from Triassic Reptile Bones, Upper Silesia, Poland
March 15, 2016 Dawid Surmik, Andrzej Boczarowski, Katarzyna Balin, Mateusz Dulski, Jacek Szade, Barbara Kremer, Roman Pawlicki
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10.1371/journal.pone.0143369

PLOS ONE A New Taxon of Basal Ceratopsian from China and the Early Evolution of Ceratopsia
December 9, 2015 Fenglu Han, Catherine A. Forster, James M. Clark, Xing Xu
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10.1371/journal.pone.0110646

PLOS ONE Pterodactylus scolopaciceps Meyer, 1860 (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Upper Jurassic of Bavaria, Germany: The Problem of Cryptic Pterosaur Taxa in Early Ontogeny
October 22, 2014 Steven Vidovic, David Martill
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10.1371/journal.pone.0141059

PLOS ONE An Ornithopod-Dominated Tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation (Barremian–Albian) of Qijiang, South-Central China: New Discoveries, Ichnotaxonomy, Preservation and Palaeoecology
October 22, 2015 Lida Xing, Martin G. Lockley, Daniel Marty, Jianping Zhang, Yan Wang, Hendrik Klein, Richard T. McCrea, Lisa G. Buckley, Matteo Belvedere, Octávio Mateus, Gerard D. Gierliński, Laura Piñuela, W. Scott Persons, Fengping Wang, Hao Ran, Hui Dai, Xianming Xie
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10.1371/journal.pone.0151453

PLOS ONE A New Specimen of the Controversial Chasmosaurine Torosaurus latus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of Montana
March 14, 2016 Andrew McDonald, Carl Campbell, Brian Thomas
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10.1371/journal.pone.0149140

PLOS ONE Record-Breaking Pain: The Largest Number and Variety of Forelimb Bone Maladies in a Theropod Dinosaur
February 24, 2016 Phil Senter, Sara L. Juengst
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10.1371/journal.pone.0144727

PLOS ONE 1.8 Billion Years of Detrital Zircon Recycling Calibrates a Refractory Part of Earth’s Sedimentary Cycle
December 14, 2015 Thomas Hadlari, Graeme T. Swindles, Jennifer M. Galloway, Kimberley M. Bell, Kyle C. Sulphur, Larry M. Heaman, Luke P. Beranek, Karen M. Fallas
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10.1371/journal.pone.0150238

PLOS ONE Testing the Hypothesis of Biofilm as a Source for Soft Tissue and Cell-Like Structures Preserved in Dinosaur Bone
February 29, 2016 Mary Higby Schweitzer, Alison E. Moyer, Wenxia Zheng
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10.1371/journal.pone.0147687

PLOS ONE Fusion Patterns in the Skulls of Modern Archosaurs Reveal That Sutures Are Ambiguous Maturity Indicators for the Dinosauria
February 10, 2016 Alida M. Bailleul, John B. Scannella, John R. Horner, David C. Evans
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10.1371/journal.pone.0146293

PLOS ONE Fungal Ferromanganese Mineralisation in Cretaceous Dinosaur Bones from the Gobi Desert, Mongolia
February 10, 2016 Krzysztof Owocki, Barbara Kremer, Beata Wrzosek, Agata Królikowska, Józef Kaźmierczak
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10.1371/journal.pone.0148575

PLOS ONE Cranial Anatomy and Palaeoneurology of the Archosaur Riojasuchus tenuisceps from the Los Colorados Formation, La Rioja, Argentina
February 5, 2016 Maria Belen von Baczko, Julia Brenda Desojo
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10.1371/journal.pone.0147031

PLOS ONE The “χ” of the Matter: Testing the Relationship between Paleoenvironments and Three Theropod Clades
February 1, 2016 Marcos A. F. Sales, Marcel B. Lacerda, Bruno L. D. Horn, Isabel A. P. de Oliveira, Cesar L. Schultz
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002359

PLOS Biology Near-Stasis in the Long-Term Diversification of Mesozoic Tetrapods
January 25, 2016 Roger B. J. Benson, Richard J. Butler, John Alroy, Philip D. Mannion, Matthew T. Carrano, Graeme T. Lloyd
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10.1371/journal.pone.0145713

PLOS ONE The Oldest Jurassic Dinosaur: A Basal Neotheropod from the Hettangian of Great Britain
January 20, 2016 David M. Martill, Steven U. Vidovic, Cindy Howells, John R. Nudds
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10.1371/journal.pone.0141048

PLOS ONE Familial Clarification of Saucrosmylidae stat. nov. and New Saucrosmylids from Daohugou, China (Insecta, Neuroptera)
October 20, 2015 Hui Fang, Dong Ren, Yongjie Wang
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10.1371/journal.pone.0145716

PLOS ONE Nonplantigrade Foot Posture: A Constraint on Dinosaur Body Size
January 20, 2016 Tai Kubo, Mugino O. Kubo
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10.1371/journal.pone.0146092

PLOS ONE Gigantism and Its Implications for the History of Life
January 15, 2016 Geerat J. Vermeij
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10.1371/journal.pone.0145865

PLOS ONE Paleobiology of the Latest Tithonian (Late Jurassic) Ammonite Salinites grossicostatum Inferred from Internal and External Shell Parameters
January 13, 2016 Patrick Zell, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck
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10.1371/journal.pone.0144695

PLOS ONE Morphofunctional Analysis of the Quadrate of Spinosauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and the Presence of Spinosaurus and a Second Spinosaurine Taxon in the Cenomanian of North Africa.
January 6, 2016 Christophe Hendrickx, Octávio Mateus, Eric Buffetaut
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10.1371/journal.pone.0145805

PLOS ONE A Re-Evaluation of the Chasmosaurine Ceratopsid Genus Chasmosaurus (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Dinosaur Park Formation of Western Canada
January 4, 2016 James A. Campbell, Michael J. Ryan, Robert B. Holmes, Claudia J. Schröder-Adams
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10.1371/journal.pone.0145904

PLOS ONE A New Basal Hadrosauroid Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Khok Kruat Formation in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Northeastern Thailand
December 30, 2015 Masateru Shibata, Pratueng Jintasakul, Yoichi Azuma, Hai-Lu You
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10.1371/journal.pone.0144148

PLOS ONE A New Leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) with a Unique Ischium from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China
December 23, 2015 Yiming He, Peter J. Makovicky, Kebai Wang, Shuqing Chen, Corwin Sullivan, Fenglu Han, Xing Xu
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004605

PLOS Computational Biology Computer Simulations Imply Forelimb-Dominated Underwater Flight in Plesiosaurs
December 18, 2015 Shiqiu Liu, Adam S. Smith, Yuting Gu, Jie Tan, C. Karen Liu, Greg Turk
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10.1371/journal.pone.0145168

PLOS ONE Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed Tomography Imaging and Reappraisal of Axial Pneumaticity in Ornithomimosauria
December 18, 2015 Akinobu Watanabe, Maria Eugenia Leone Gold, Stephen L. Brusatte, Roger B. J. Benson, Jonah Choiniere, Amy Davidson, Mark A. Norell
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10.1371/journal.pone.0144167

PLOS ONE A New Sail-Backed Styracosternan (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Morella, Spain
December 16, 2015 José Miguel Gasulla, Iván Narváez, Francisco Ortega, José Luis Sanz, Fernando Escaso
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10.1371/journal.pone.0144036

PLOS ONE Resting Orientations of Dinosaur Scapulae and Forelimbs: A Numerical Analysis, with Implications for Reconstructions and Museum Mounts
December 16, 2015 Phil Senter, James H. Robins
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PLOS ONE Phylogenetic Clustering of Origination and Extinction across the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction
December 14, 2015 Andrew Z. Krug, Mark E. Patzkowsky
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10.1371/journal.pone.0142829

PLOS ONE Eggshell Porosity Provides Insight on Evolution of Nesting in Dinosaurs
November 25, 2015 Kohei Tanaka, Darla K. Zelenitsky, François Therrien
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10.1371/journal.pone.0141904

PLOS ONE Ontogenetic Tooth Reduction in Stenopterygius quadriscissus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria): Negative Allometry, Changes in Growth Rate, and Early Senescence of the Dental Lamina
November 18, 2015 Daniel G. Dick, Erin E. Maxwell
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10.1371/journal.pone.0142692

PLOS ONE Hadrosauroid Dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of the Sultanate of Oman
November 12, 2015 Eric Buffetaut, Mohammed Al-Kindi, Anne S. Schulp, Axel-Frans Hartman
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10.1371/journal.pone.0141275

PLOS ONE A Reappraisal of the Purported Gastric Pellet with Pterosaurian Bones from the Upper Triassic of Italy
November 11, 2015 Borja Holgado, Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia, Josep Fortuny, Federico Bernardini, Claudio Tuniz
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10.1371/journal.pone.0141304

PLOS ONE A New Brachylophosaurin Hadrosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) with an Intermediate Nasal Crest from the Campanian Judith River Formation of Northcentral Montana
November 11, 2015 Elizabeth A. Freedman Fowler, John R. Horner
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10.1371/journal.pone.0138806

PLOS ONE Perinatal Specimens of Saurolophus angustirostris (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae), from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia
October 14, 2015 Leonard Dewaele, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, Rinchen Barsbold, Géraldine Garcia, Koen Stein, François Escuillié, Pascal Godefroit
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PLOS ONE The Postcranial Skeleton of an Exceptionally Complete Individual of the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus stenops (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A.
October 14, 2015 Susannah Catherine Rose Maidment, Charlotte Brassey, Paul Michael Barrett
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10.1371/journal.pone.0138233

PLOS ONE A New Titanosaurian Braincase from the Cretaceous “Lo Hueco” Locality in Spain Sheds Light on Neuroanatomical Evolution within Titanosauria
October 7, 2015 Fabien Knoll, Lawrence M. Witmer, Ryan C. Ridgely, Francisco Ortega, Jose Luis Sanz
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10.1371/journal.pone.0137709

PLOS ONE Forearm Range of Motion in Australovenator wintonensis (Theropoda, Megaraptoridae)
September 14, 2015 Matt White, Phil Bell, Alex Cook, David Barnes, Travis Tischler, Brant Bassam, David Elliott
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10.1371/journal.pone.0137284

PLOS ONE A Three-Dimensional Skeletal Reconstruction of the Stem Amniote Orobates pabsti (Diadectidae): Analyses of Body Mass, Centre of Mass Position, and Joint Mobility
September 10, 2015 John Nyakatura, Vivian Allen, Jonas Lauströer, Amir Andikfar, Marek Danczak, Hans-Jürgen Ullrich, Werner Hufenbach, Thomas Martens, Martin Fischer
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10.1371/journal.pone.0135114

PLOS ONE Anatomy of the Enigmatic Reptile Elachistosuchus huenei Janensch, 1949 (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Upper Triassic of Germany and Its Relevance for the Origin of Sauria
September 9, 2015 Gabriela Sobral, Hans-Dieter Sues, Johannes Müller
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10.1371/journal.pone.0134231

PLOS ONE Integrated Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction and Taphonomy of a Unique Upper Cretaceous Vertebrate-Bearing Locality (Velaux, Southeastern France)
August 19, 2015 Aude Cincotta, Johan Yans, Pascal Godefroit, Géraldine Garcia, Jean Dejax, Mouloud Benammi, Sauveur Amico, Xavier Valentin
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10.1371/journal.pone.0128610

PLOS ONE Evidence of Egg Diversity in Squamate Evolution from Cretaceous Anguimorph Embryos
July 15, 2015 Vincent Fernandez, Eric Buffetaut, Varavudh Suteethorn, Jean-Claude Rage, Paul Tafforeau, Martin Kundrát
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10.1371/journal.pone.0132550

PLOS ONE Red Iron-Pigmented Tooth Enamel in a Multituberculate Mammal from the Late Cretaceous Transylvanian “Haţeg Island”
July 15, 2015 Thierry Smith, Vlad Codrea
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10.1371/journal.pone.0130007

PLOS ONE Cranial Anatomy of Wendiceratops pinhornensis gen. et sp. nov., a Centrosaurine Ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian), Alberta, Canada, and the Evolution of Ceratopsid Nasal Ornamentation
July 8, 2015 David Evans, Michael Ryan
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10.1371/journal.pone.0128296

PLOS ONE A Peculiar New Pampatheriidae (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Cingulata) from the Pleistocene of Argentina and Comments on Pampatheriidae Diversity
June 17, 2015 Flávio Góis, Laureano González Ruiz, Gustavo Scillato-Yané, Esteban Soibelzon
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10.1371/journal.pone.0128871

PLOS ONE Miocene Fossils Reveal Ancient Roots for New Zealand’s Endemic Mystacina (Chiroptera) and Its Rainforest Habitat
June 17, 2015 Suzanne Hand, Daphne Lee, Trevor Worthy, Michael Archer, Jennifer Worthy, Alan Tennyson, Steven Salisbury, R Scofield, Dallas Mildenhall, Elizabeth Kennedy, John Lindqvist
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10.1371/journal.pone.0129444

PLOS ONE Miocene Shark and Batoid Fauna from Nosy Makamby (Mahajanga Basin, Northwestern Madagascar)
June 15, 2015 Tsiory Andrianavalona, Tolotra Ramihangihajason, Armand Rasoamiaramanana, David Ward, Jason Ali, Karen Samonds
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10.1371/journal.pone.0126904

PLOS ONE Taphonomic Analysis of the Faunal Assemblage Associated with the Hominins (Australopithecus sediba) from the Early Pleistocene Cave Deposits of Malapa, South Africa
June 10, 2015 Aurore Val, Paul Dirks, Lucinda Backwell, Francesco d'Errico, Lee Berger
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10.1371/journal.pone.0125446

PLOS ONE A Diverse Tetrapod Fauna at the Base of ‘Romer’s Gap’
April 27, 2015 Jason Anderson, Tim Smithson, Chris Mansky, Taran Meyer, Jennifer Clack
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10.1371/journal.pone.0122715

PLOS ONE Hints of the Early Jehol Biota: Important Dinosaur Footprint Assemblages from the Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary Tuchengzi Formation in Beijing, China
April 22, 2015 Lida Xing, Jianping Zhang, Martin Lockley, Richard McCrea, Hendrik Klein, Luis Alcalá, Lisa Buckley, Michael Burns, Susanna Kümmell, Qing He
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10.1371/journal.pone.0116041

PLOS ONE Ecological Changes in Coyotes (Canis latrans) in Response to the Ice Age Megafaunal Extinctions
December 31, 2014 Julie Meachen, Adrianna Janowicz, Jori Avery, Rudyard Sadleir
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10.1371/journal.pone.0117079

PLOS ONE Sclerotic Rings in Mosasaurs (Squamata: Mosasauridae): Structures and Taxonomic Diversity
February 18, 2015 Momo Yamashita, Takuya Konishi, Tamaki Sato
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10.1371/journal.pone.0115477

PLOS ONE Ichnotaxonomic Review of Large Ornithopod Dinosaur Tracks: Temporal and Geographic Implications
February 12, 2015 Ignacio Díaz Martínez, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, Félix Pérez-Lorente, José Ignacio Canudo
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10.1371/journal.pone.0117281

PLOS ONE Craniocervical Myology and Functional Morphology of the Small-Headed Therizinosaurian Theropods Falcarius utahensis and Nothronychus mckinleyi
February 23, 2015 David Smith
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10.1371/journal.pone.0126464

PLOS ONE Males Resemble Females: Re-Evaluating Sexual Dimorphism in Protoceratops andrewsi (Neoceratopsia, Protoceratopsidae)
May 7, 2015 Leonardo Maiorino, Andrew Farke, Tassos Kotsakis, Paolo Piras
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PLOS ONE New Information on Tataouinea hannibalis from the Early Cretaceous of Tunisia and Implications for the Tempo and Mode of Rebbachisaurid Sauropod Evolution
April 29, 2015 Federico Fanti, Andrea Cau, Luigi Cantelli, Mohsen Hassine, Marco Auditore
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PLOS ONE Evidence for Sexual Dimorphism in the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus mjosi (Ornithischia, Stegosauria) from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Western USA
April 22, 2015 Evan Saitta
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10.1371/journal.pone.0124039

PLOS ONE Reanalysis of Wupus agilis (Early Cretaceous) of Chongqing, China as a Large Avian Trace: Differentiating between Large Bird and Small Non-Avian Theropod Tracks
May 20, 2015 Lida Xing, Lisa Buckley, Richard McCrea, Martin Lockley, Jianping Zhang, Laura Piñuela, Hendrik Klein, Fengping Wang
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10.1371/journal.pone.0125819

PLOS ONE The Anatomy and Phylogenetic Relationships of “Pelorosaurus“ becklesii (Neosauropoda, Macronaria) from the Early Cretaceous of England
June 3, 2015 Paul Upchurch, Philip Mannion, Michael Taylor
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10.1371/journal.pone.0127792

PLOS ONE The First Dinosaur from Washington State and a Review of Pacific Coast Dinosaurs from North America
May 20, 2015 Brandon Peecook, Christian Sidor
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10.1371/journal.pone.0125923

PLOS ONE Laser-Stimulated Fluorescence in Paleontology
May 27, 2015 Thomas Kaye, Amanda Falk, Michael Pittman, Paul Sereno, Larry Martin, David Burnham, Enpu Gong, Xing Xu, Yinan Wang
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10.1371/journal.pone.0078572

PLOS ONE A New Sauropod Dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of the United Kingdom
June 1, 2015 Phillip Manning, Victoria Egerton, Mike Romano
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10.1371/journal.pone.0129449

PLOS ONE The Slothful Claw: Osteology and Taphonomy of Nothronychus mckinleyi and N. graffami (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and Anatomical Considerations for Derived Therizinosaurids
June 10, 2015 Brandon Hedrick, Lindsay Zanno, Douglas Wolfe, Peter Dodson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0130359

PLOS ONE Cranial Morphology of the Brachystelechid ‘Microsaur’ Quasicaecilia texana Carroll Provides New Insights into the Diversity and Evolution of Braincase Morphology in Recumbirostran ‘Microsaurs’
June 24, 2015 Jason Pardo, Matt Szostakiwskyj, Jason Anderson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0108804

PLOS ONE A New Ankylosaurid Dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Kirtlandian) of New Mexico with Implications for Ankylosaurid Diversity in the Upper Cretaceous of Western North America
September 24, 2014 Victoria Arbour, Michael Burns, Robert Sullivan, Spencer Lucas, Amanda Cantrell, Joshua Fry, Thomas Suazo
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10.1371/journal.pone.0108307

PLOS ONE Species Richness and Evidence of Random Patterns in Assemblages of South American Titanosauria during the Late Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian)
September 23, 2014 Washington Vieira, Kleber Vieira, Rômulo Nóbrega, Paulo Montenegro, Gentil Pereira Filho, Gindomar Santana, Rômulo Alves, Waltécio Almeida, Alexandre Vasconcellos
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10.1371/journal.pone.0100005

PLOS ONE Discovery of a Rare Pterosaur Bone Bed in a Cretaceous Desert with Insights on Ontogeny and Behavior of Flying Reptiles
August 13, 2014 Paulo Manzig, Alexander Kellner, Luiz Weinschütz, Carlos Fragoso, Cristina Vega, Gilson Guimarães, Luiz Godoy, Antonio Liccardo, João Ricetti, Camila de Moura
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10.1371/journal.pone.0102488

PLOS ONE Titanosaur Osteoderms from the Upper Cretaceous of Lo Hueco (Spain) and Their Implications on the Armor of Laurasian Titanosaurs
August 13, 2014 Daniel Vidal, Francisco Ortega, José Luis Sanz
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10.1371/journal.pone.0104551

PLOS ONE A New Basal Ankylosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning Province, China
August 13, 2014 Fenglu Han, Wenjie Zheng, Dongyu Hu, Xing Xu, Paul Barrett
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10.1371/journal.pone.0103255

PLOS ONE A Temnospondyl Trackway from the Early Mesozoic of Western Gondwana and Its Implications for Basal Tetrapod Locomotion
August 6, 2014 Claudia Marsicano, Jeffrey Wilson, Roger Smith
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10.1371/journal.pone.0103152

PLOS ONE A New Upper Jurassic Ophthalmosaurid Ichthyosaur from the Slottsmøya Member, Agardhfjellet Formation of Central Spitsbergen
August 1, 2014 Aubrey Roberts, Patrick Druckenmiller, Glenn-Peter Sætre, Jørn Hurum
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10.1371/journal.pone.0103613

PLOS ONE A ‘Terror of Tyrannosaurs’: The First Trackways of Tyrannosaurids and Evidence of Gregariousness and Pathology in Tyrannosauridae
July 23, 2014 Richard McCrea, Lisa Buckley, James Farlow, Martin Lockley, Philip Currie, Neffra Matthews, S. Pemberton
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10.1371/journal.pone.0098605

PLOS ONE The Functional and Palaeoecological Implications of Tooth Morphology and Wear for the Megaherbivorous Dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada
June 11, 2014 Jordan Mallon, Jason Anderson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0098821

PLOS ONE A New Basal Hadrosauroid Dinosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) with Transitional Features from the Late Cretaceous of Henan Province, China
June 5, 2014 Hai Xing, Deyou Wang, Fenglu Han, Corwin Sullivan, Qingyu Ma, Yiming He, David Hone, Ronghao Yan, Fuming Du, Xing Xu
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10.1371/journal.pone.0097128

PLOS ONE A Diplodocid Sauropod Survivor from the Early Cretaceous of South America
May 14, 2014 Pablo Gallina, Sebastián Apesteguía, Alejandro Haluza, Juan Canale
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10.1371/journal.pone.0096075

PLOS ONE Probable Ankylosaur Ossicles from the Middle Cenomanian Dunvegan Formation of Northwestern Alberta, Canada
May 9, 2014 Michael Burns, Matthew Vavrek
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10.1371/journal.pone.0095637

PLOS ONE A New Look at Ichthyosaur Long Bone Microanatomy and Histology: Implications for Their Adaptation to an Aquatic Life
April 21, 2014 Alexandra Houssaye, Torsten Scheyer, Christian Kolb, Valentin Fischer, P. Martin Sander
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10.1371/journal.pone.0093190

PLOS ONE Small Theropod Teeth from the Late Cretaceous of the San Juan Basin, Northwestern New Mexico and Their Implications for Understanding Latest Cretaceous Dinosaur Evolution
April 7, 2014 Tom Williamson, Stephen Brusatte
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10.1371/journal.pone.0093708

PLOS ONE Intra-Trackway Morphological Variations Due to Substrate Consistency: The El Frontal Dinosaur Tracksite (Lower Cretaceous, Spain)
April 3, 2014 NOVELLA RAZZOLINI, Bernat Vila, Diego Castanera, Peter Falkingham, José Barco, José Canudo, Phillip Manning, Àngel Galobart
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10.1371/journal.pone.0093247

PLOS ONE Historical Photogrammetry: Bird’s Paluxy River Dinosaur Chase Sequence Digitally Reconstructed as It Was prior to Excavation 70 Years Ago
April 2, 2014 Peter Falkingham, Karl Bates, James Farlow
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10.1371/journal.pone.0092022

PLOS ONE A New Large-Bodied Oviraptorosaurian Theropod Dinosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of Western North America
March 19, 2014 Matthew Lamanna, Hans-Dieter Sues, Emma Schachner, Tyler Lyson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0091287

PLOS ONE A Diminutive New Tyrannosaur from the Top of the World
March 12, 2014 Anthony Fiorillo, Ronald Tykoski
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10.1371/journal.pone.0090751

PLOS ONE Dinosaur Footprints and Other Ichnofauna from the Cretaceous Kem Kem Beds of Morocco
March 6, 2014 Nizar Ibrahim, David Varricchio, Paul Sereno, Jeff Wilson, Didier Dutheil, David Martill, Lahssen Baidder, Samir Zouhri
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10.1371/journal.pone.0088640

PLOS ONE Terrestrial Origin of Viviparity in Mesozoic Marine Reptiles Indicated by Early Triassic Embryonic Fossils
February 12, 2014 Ryosuke Motani, Da-yong Jiang, Andrea Tintori, Olivier Rieppel, Guan-bao Chen
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10.1371/journal.pone.0088458

PLOS ONE Walking Like Dinosaurs: Chickens with Artificial Tails Provide Clues about Non-Avian Theropod Locomotion
February 5, 2014 Bruno Grossi, Jose Iriarte-Diaz, Omar Larach, Mauricio Canals, Rodrigo Vásquez
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10.1371/journal.pone.0086864

PLOS ONE The Osteology of the Basal Archosauromorph Tasmaniosaurus triassicus from the Lower Triassic of Tasmania, Australia
January 30, 2014 Martin Ezcurra
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PLOS ONE A New Titanosaurian Sauropod from the Hekou Group (Lower Cretaceous) of the Lanzhou-Minhe Basin, Gansu Province, China
January 29, 2014 liguo li, Hai-Lu You, Da-Qing Li, Peter Dodson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0086229

PLOS ONE First Clarkforkian Equivalent Land Mammal Age in the Latest Paleocene Basal Sparnacian Facies of Europe: Fauna, Flora, Paleoenvironment and (Bio)stratigraphy
January 29, 2014 Thierry Smith, Florence Quesnel, Gaël De Ploëg, Dario De Franceschi, Grégoire Métais, Eric De Bast, Floréal Solé, Annelise Folie, Anaïs Boura, Julien Claude, Christian Dupuis, Cyril Gagnaison, Alina Iakovleva, Jeremy Martin, François Maubert, Judicaël Prieur, Emile Roche, Jean-Yves Storme, Romain Thomas, Haiyan Tong, Johan Yans, Eric Buffetaut
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10.1371/journal.pone.0084709

PLOS ONE High Diversity in Cretaceous Ichthyosaurs from Europe Prior to Their Extinction
January 21, 2014 Valentin Fischer, Nathalie Bardet, Myette Guiomar, Pascal Godefroit
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10.1371/journal.pone.0085203

PLOS ONE Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Feathered Dinosaur Measured Using Physical Models. Effects of Form on Static Stability and Control Effectiveness
January 15, 2014 Dennis Evangelista, Griselda Cardona, Eric Guenther-Gleason, Tony Huynh, Austin Kwong, Dylan Marks, Neil Ray, Adrian Tisbe, Kyle Tse, Mimi Koehl
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10.1371/journal.pone.0085511

PLOS ONE Evidence of Spondyloarthropathy in the Spine of a Phytosaur (Reptilia: Archosauriformes) from the Late Triassic of Halberstadt, Germany
January 15, 2014 Florian Witzmann, Daniela Schwarz-Wings, Oliver Hampe, Guido Fritsch, Patrick Asbach
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10.1371/journal.pone.0084041

PLOS ONE First Dinosaurs from Saudi Arabia
December 26, 2013 Benjamin Kear, Thomas Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Mohammed Ali, Yahya Al-Mufarreh, Adel Matari, Abdu Al-Massari, Abdulaziz Nasser, Yousry Attia, Mohammed Halawani
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10.1371/journal.pone.0081917

PLOS ONE Revisiting the Estimation of Dinosaur Growth Rates
December 16, 2013 Nathan Myhrvold
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PLOS ONE Absence of Suction Feeding Ichthyosaurs and Its Implications for Triassic Mesopelagic Paleoecology
December 11, 2013 Ryosuke Motani, Cheng Ji, Taketeru Tomita, Neil Kelley, Erin Maxwell, Da-yong Jiang, Paul Sander
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10.1371/journal.pone.0080405

PLOS ONE The Basal Nodosaurid Ankylosaur Europelta carbonensis n. gen., n. sp. from the Lower Cretaceous (Lower Albian) Escucha Formation of Northeastern Spain
December 2, 2013 James Kirkland, Luis Alcalá, Mark Loewen, Eduardo Espílez, Luis Mampel, Jelle Wiersma
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10.1371/journal.pone.0080557

PLOS ONE A New Oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Oviraptorosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Southern China and Its Paleoecological Implications
November 27, 2013 Junchang Lü, Laiping Yi, Hui Zhong, Xuefang Wei
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10.1371/journal.pone.0081608

PLOS ONE Is Torosaurus Triceratops? Geometric Morphometric Evidence of Late Maastrichtian Ceratopsid Dinosaurs
November 26, 2013 Leonardo Maiorino, Andrew Farke, Tassos Kotsakis, Paolo Piras
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10.1371/journal.pone.0082268

PLOS ONE The ‘Unicorn’ Dinosaur That Wasn’t: A New Reconstruction of the Crest of Tsintaosaurus and the Early Evolution of the Lambeosaurine Crest and Rostrum
November 22, 2013 Albert Prieto-Márquez, Jonathan Wagner
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10.1371/journal.pone.0079887

PLOS ONE Pelvis of Gargoyleosaurus (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria) and the Origin and Evolution of the Ankylosaur Pelvis
November 14, 2013 Kenneth Carpenter, Tony DiCroce, Billy Kinneer, Robert Simon
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10.1371/journal.pone.0078899

PLOS ONE Cranial Endocast of the Lambeosaurine Hadrosaurid Amurosaurus riabinini from the Amur Region, Russia
November 13, 2013 Pascaline Lauters, Martine Vercauteren, Yuri Bolotsky, Pascal Godefroit
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10.1371/journal.pone.0079420

PLOS ONE Tyrant Dinosaur Evolution Tracks the Rise and Fall of Late Cretaceous Oceans
November 6, 2013 Mark Loewen, Randall Irmis, Joseph Sertich, Philip Currie, Scott Sampson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0077058

PLOS ONE A New Hadrosauroid Dinosaur from the Early Late Cretaceous of Shanxi Province, China
October 18, 2013 Run-Fu Wang, Hai-Lu You, Shi-Chao Xu, Suo-Zhu Wang, Jian Yi, Li-Juan Xie, Lei Jia, Ya-Xian Li
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10.1371/journal.pone.0072007

PLOS ONE The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Influence of Skull Reconstructions and Intraspecific Variability in Studies of Cranial Morphometrics in Theropods and Basal Saurischians
August 8, 2013 Christian Foth, Oliver Rauhut
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10.1371/journal.pone.0070877

PLOS ONE Revised Vertebral Count in the “Longest-Necked Vertebrate” Elasmosaurus platyurus Cope 1868, and Clarification of the Cervical-Dorsal Transition in Plesiosauria
August 5, 2013 Sven Sachs, Benjamin Kear, Michael Everhart
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10.1371/journal.pone.0069835

PLOS ONE Diversity, Relationships, and Biogeography of the Lambeosaurine Dinosaurs from the European Archipelago, with Description of the New Aralosaurin Canardia garonnensis
July 26, 2013 Albert Prieto-Márquez, Fabio Dalla Vecchia, Angel Galobart, Rodrigo Gaete
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10.1371/journal.pone.0068590

PLOS ONE Long Bone Histology and Growth Patterns in Ankylosaurs: Implications for Life History and Evolution
July 24, 2013 Martina Stein, Shoji Hayashi, P. Martin Sander
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10.1371/journal.pone.0069235

PLOS ONE Evolution of High Tooth Replacement Rates in Sauropod Dinosaurs
July 17, 2013 Michael D'Emic, John Whitlock, Kathlyn Smith, Daniel Fisher, Jeffrey Wilson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0068620

PLOS ONE Distributions of Cranial Pathologies Provide Evidence for Head-Butting in Dome-Headed Dinosaurs (Pachycephalosauridae)
July 16, 2013 Joseph Peterson, Collin Dischler, Nicholas Longrich
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10.1371/journal.pone.0067182

PLOS ONE Skull Ecomorphology of Megaherbivorous Dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada
July 10, 2013 Jordan Mallon, Jason Anderson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0065802

PLOS ONE An Immature Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae) Nasal Reveals Unexpected Complexity of Craniofacial Ontogeny and Integument in Pachyrhinosaurus
June 19, 2013 Anthony Fiorillo, Ronald Tykoski
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PLOS ONE On the Validity and Phylogenetic Position of Eubrachiosaurus browni, a Kannemeyeriiform Dicynodont (Anomodontia) from Triassic North America
May 31, 2013 Christian Kammerer, Jörg Fröbisch, Kenneth Angielczyk
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10.1371/journal.pone.0065989

PLOS ONE A Giant Pliosaurid Skull from the Late Jurassic of England
May 31, 2013 Roger Benson, Mark Evans, Adam Smith, Judyth Sassoon, Scott Moore-Faye, Hilary Ketchum, Richard Forrest
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10.1371/journal.pone.0063423

PLOS ONE An Unusual Basal Therizinosaur Dinosaur with an Ornithischian Dental Arrangement from Northeastern China
May 29, 2013 Hanyong Pu, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Junchang LÜ, Li XU, Yanhua WU, Huali CHANG, Jiming ZHANG, Songhai JIA
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10.1371/journal.pone.0065295

PLOS ONE Feeding Mechanics in Spinosaurid Theropods and Extant Crocodilians
May 28, 2013 Andrew Cuff, Emily Rayfield
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10.1371/journal.pone.0063115

PLOS ONE Shake a Tail Feather: The Evolution of the Theropod Tail into a Stiff Aerodynamic Surface
May 15, 2013 Michael Pittman, Stephen Gatesy, Paul Upchurch, Anjali Goswami, John Hutchinson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0063409

PLOS ONE Palaeopathological Survey of a Population of Mapusaurus (Theropoda: Carcharodontosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous Huincul Formation, Argentina
May 15, 2013 Phil Bell, Rodolfo Coria
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10.1371/journal.pone.0064253

PLOS ONE The Behavioral Implications of a Multi-Individual Bonebed of a Small Theropod Dinosaur
May 15, 2013 Lucio Ibiricu, Rubén Martínez, Gabriel Casal, Ignacio Cerda
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10.1371/journal.pone.0062421

PLOS ONE Euoplocephalus tutus and the Diversity of Ankylosaurid Dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, and Montana, USA
May 8, 2013 Victoria Arbour, Philip Currie
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10.1371/journal.pone.0062047

PLOS ONE An Abelisauroid Theropod Dinosaur from the Turonian of Madagascar
April 18, 2013 Andrew Farke, Joseph Sertich
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10.1371/journal.pone.0061030

PLOS ONE A Large Accumulation of Avian Eggs from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina) Reveals a Novel Nesting Strategy in Mesozoic Birds
April 17, 2013 Mariela Fernández, Rodolfo García, Lucas Fiorelli, Alejandro Scolaro, Rodrigo Salvador, Carlos Cotaro, Gary Kaiser, Gareth Dyke
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10.1371/journal.pone.0060571

PLOS ONE Ankylosaur Remains from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) of Northwestern Germany
April 3, 2013 Sven Sachs, Jahn Hornung
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10.1371/journal.pone.0058451

PLOS ONE A New Small-Bodied Azhdarchoid Pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of England and Its Implications for Pterosaur Anatomy, Diversity and Phylogeny
March 18, 2013 Darren Naish, Martin Simpson, Gareth Dyke
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10.1371/journal.pone.0058517

PLOS ONE Turning Semicircular Canal Function on Its Head: Dinosaurs and a Novel Vestibular Analysis
March 13, 2013 Justin Georgi, Justin Sipla, Catherine Forster
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10.1371/journal.pone.0058853

PLOS ONE An Ornithomimid (Dinosauria) Bonebed from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, with Implications for the Behavior, Classification, and Stratigraphy of North American Ornithomimids
March 12, 2013 Thomas Cullen, Michael Ryan, Claudia Schröder-Adams, Philip Currie, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi
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10.1371/journal.pone.0057605

PLOS ONE Crocodyliform Feeding Traces on Juvenile Ornithischian Dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Kaiparowits Formation, Utah
February 27, 2013 Clint Boyd, Stephanie Drumheller, Terry Gates
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10.1371/journal.pone.0057408

PLOS ONE Dynamic Similarity in Titanosaur Sauropods: Ichnological Evidence from the Fumanya Dinosaur Tracksite (Southern Pyrenees)
February 25, 2013 BERNAT VILA, Oriol Oms, Àngel Galobart, Karl Bates, Victoria Egerton, Phillip Manning
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10.1371/journal.pone.0056937

PLOS ONE Secondary Cartilage Revealed in a Non-Avian Dinosaur Embryo
February 13, 2013 Alida Bailleul, Brian Hall, John Horner
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10.1371/journal.pone.0054268

PLOS ONE A New Azhdarchid Pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of the Transylvanian Basin, Romania: Implications for Azhdarchid Diversity and Distribution
January 30, 2013 Mátyás Vremir, Alexander Kellner, Darren Naish, Gareth Dyke
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10.1371/journal.pone.0054329

PLOS ONE Multivariate Analyses of Small Theropod Dinosaur Teeth and Implications for Paleoecological Turnover through Time
January 23, 2013 Derek W. Larson, Philip J. Currie
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PLOS ONE Neurocranial Osteology and Neuroanatomy of a Late Cretaceous Titanosaurian Sauropod from Spain (Ampelosaurus sp.)
January 23, 2013 Fabien Knoll, Ryan Ridgely, Francisco Ortega, Jose Luis Sanz, Lawrence Witmer
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10.1371/journal.pone.0051925

PLOS ONE Body Size Distribution of the Dinosaurs
December 19, 2012 Eoin O'Gorman, David Hone
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10.1371/journal.pone.0052289

PLOS ONE The Endocranial Anatomy of Therizinosauria and Its Implications for Sensory and Cognitive Function
December 19, 2012 Stephan Lautenschlager, Emily Rayfield, Perle Altangerel, Lindsay Zanno, Lawrence Witmer
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10.1371/journal.pone.0050555

PLOS ONE Pedal Claw Curvature in Birds, Lizards and Mesozoic Dinosaurs – Complicated Categories and Compensating for Mass-Specific and Phylogenetic Control
December 5, 2012 Aleksandra Birn-Jeffery, Charlotte Miller, Darren Naish, Emily Rayfield, David Hone
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10.1371/journal.pone.0050088

PLOS ONE An Unusual Pterosaur Specimen (Pterodactyloidea, ?Azhdarchoidea) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation of Brazil, and the Evolution of the Pterodactyloid Palate
November 21, 2012 Felipe Pinheiro, Cesar Schultz
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10.1371/journal.pone.0046839

PLOS ONE A New Rhynchocephalian from the Late Jurassic of Germany with a Dentition That Is Unique amongst Tetrapods
October 31, 2012 Oliver Rauhut, Alexander Heyng, Adriana López-Arbarello, Andreas Hecker
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10.1371/journal.pone.0045712

PLOS ONE Osteology of the Basal Hadrosauroid Eolambia caroljonesa (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah
October 15, 2012 Andrew McDonald, John Bird, James Kirkland, Peter Dodson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0045203

PLOS ONE A Second Soundly Sleeping Dragon: New Anatomical Details of the Chinese Troodontid Mei long with Implications for Phylogeny and Taphonomy
September 27, 2012 Chunling Gao, Eric Morschhauser, David Varricchio, Jinyuan Liu, Bo Zhao
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10.1371/journal.pone.0044318

PLOS ONE Phylogeny, Histology and Inferred Body Size Evolution in a New Rhabdodontid Dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Hungary
September 21, 2012 Attila Ősi, Edina Prondvai, Richard Butler, David Weishampel
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10.1371/journal.pone.0044541

PLOS ONE Gavialis from the Pleistocene of Thailand and Its Relevance for Drainage Connections from India to Java
September 18, 2012 jeremy martin, Eric Buffetaut, Wilailuck Naksri, Komsorn Lauprasert, Julien Claude
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10.1371/journal.pone.0044012

PLOS ONE Abdominal Contents from Two Large Early Cretaceous Compsognathids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Demonstrate Feeding on Confuciusornithids and Dromaeosaurids
August 29, 2012 Lida Xing, Phil Bell, W. Persons IV, Shuan Ji, Tetsuto Miyashita, Michael Burns, Qiang Ji, Philip Currie
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10.1371/journal.pone.0042135

PLOS ONE Mountain Building Triggered Late Cretaceous North American Megaherbivore Dinosaur Radiation
August 2, 2012 Terry Gates, Albert Prieto-Marquez, Lindsay Zanno
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10.1371/journal.pone.0041692

PLOS ONE First Diagnostic Marine Reptile Remains from the Aalenian (Middle Jurassic): A New Ichthyosaur from Southwestern Germany
August 1, 2012 Erin Maxwell, Marta Fernández, Rainer Schoch
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PLOS ONE A New Non-Pterodactyloid Pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of Southern Germany
July 5, 2012 David Hone, Helmut Tischlinger, Eberhard Frey, Martin Röper
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10.1371/journal.pone.0038900

PLOS ONE A New Crested Pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Spain: The First European Tapejarid (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea)
July 3, 2012 Romain Vullo, Jesús Marugán-Lobón, Alexander Kellner, Angela Buscalioni, Bernard Gomez, Montserrat de la Fuente, José Moratalla
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10.1371/journal.pone.0039364

PLOS ONE New Forearm Elements Discovered of Holotype Specimen Australovenator wintonensis from Winton, Queensland, Australia
June 27, 2012 Matt White, Alex Cook, Scott Hocknull, Trish Sloan, George Sinapius, David Elliott
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10.1371/journal.pone.0039056

PLOS ONE The Completeness of the Fossil Record of Mesozoic Birds: Implications for Early Avian Evolution
June 25, 2012 Neil Brocklehurst, Paul Upchurch, Philip Mannion, Jingmai O'Connor
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10.1371/journal.pone.0039323

PLOS ONE Analyzing Taphonomic Deformation of Ankylosaur Skulls Using Retrodeformation and Finite Element Analysis
June 22, 2012 Victoria Arbour, Philip Currie
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10.1371/journal.pone.0038207

PLOS ONE The Lambeosaurine Dinosaur Magnapaulia laticaudus from the Late Cretaceous of Baja California, Northwestern Mexico
June 12, 2012 Albert Prieto-Marquez, Luis Chiappe, Shantanu Joshi
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10.1371/journal.pone.0036664

PLOS ONE Functional Morphometric Analysis of the Furcula in Mesozoic Birds
May 30, 2012 Roger Close, Emily Rayfield
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10.1371/journal.pone.0036849

PLOS ONE A New Saurolophine Dinosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of Far Eastern Russia
May 30, 2012 Pascal Godefroit, Yuri Bolotsky, Pascaline Lauters
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10.1371/journal.pone.0036208

PLOS ONE Impact of Sauropod Dinosaurs on Lagoonal Substrates in the Broome Sandstone (Lower Cretaceous), Western Australia
May 25, 2012 Tony Thulborn
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PLOS ONE Flexibility along the Neck of the Neogene Terror Bird Andalgalornis steulleti (Aves Phorusrhacidae)
May 25, 2012 claudia tambussi, Ricardo de Mendoza, Federico Degrange, Mariana Picasso
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10.1371/journal.pone.0036745

PLOS ONE Phylogeny of Basal Iguanodonts (Dinosauria: Ornithischia): An Update
May 22, 2012 Andrew McDonald
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PLOS ONE Limb-Bone Scaling Indicates Diverse Stance and Gait in Quadrupedal Ornithischian Dinosaurs
May 22, 2012 Susannah Maidment, Deborah Linton, Paul Upchurch, Paul Barrett
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10.1371/journal.pone.0036907

PLOS ONE Modified Laminar Bone in Ampelosaurus atacis and Other Titanosaurs (Sauropoda): Implications for Life History and Physiology
May 16, 2012 Nicole Klein, Martin Sander, Koen Stein, Jean Le Loeuff, Jose L. Carballido, Eric Buffetaut
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10.1371/journal.pone.0036790

PLOS ONE New Dromaeosaurids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah, and the Evolution of the Dromaeosaurid Tail
May 15, 2012 Phil Senter, James Kirkland, Donald DeBlieux, Scott Madsen, Natalie Toth
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10.1371/journal.pone.0036112

PLOS ONE First Evidence of Dinosaurian Secondary Cartilage in the Post-Hatching Skull of Hypacrosaurus stebingeri (Dinosauria, Ornithischia)
April 30, 2012 Alida Bailleul, Brian Hall, John Horner
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10.1371/journal.pone.0036227

PLOS ONE Cranial Pathologies in a Specimen of Pachycephalosaurus
April 30, 2012 Joseph Peterson, Christopher Vittore
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10.1371/journal.pone.0031556

PLOS ONE Anatomy and Cranial Functional Morphology of the Small-Bodied Dinosaur Fruitadens haagarorum from the Upper Jurassic of the USA
April 11, 2012 Richard Butler, Laura Porro, Peter Galton, Luis Chiappe
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10.1371/journal.pone.0033539

PLOS ONE The Ontogenetic Osteohistology of Tenontosaurus tilletti
March 28, 2012 Sarah Werning
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10.1371/journal.pone.0034094

PLOS ONE Reassessment of the Evidence for Postcranial Skeletal Pneumaticity in Triassic Archosaurs, and the Early Evolution of the Avian Respiratory System
March 28, 2012 Richard Butler, Paul Barrett, David Gower
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10.1371/journal.pone.0033170

PLOS ONE New Insights into the Skull of Istiodactylus latidens (Ornithocheiroidea, Pterodactyloidea)
March 21, 2012 Mark Witton
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10.1371/journal.pone.0031838

PLOS ONE High Diversity, Low Disparity and Small Body Size in Plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary
March 16, 2012 Roger Benson, Mark Evans, Patrick Druckenmiller
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10.1371/journal.pone.0031781

PLOS ONE Insights into the Ecology and Evolutionary Success of Crocodilians Revealed through Bite-Force and Tooth-Pressure Experimentation
March 14, 2012 Gregory Erickson, Paul Gignac, Scott Steppan, A. Lappin, Kent Vliet, John Brueggen, Brian Inouye, David Kledzik, Graham Webb
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10.1371/journal.pone.0032934

PLOS ONE Controls on Gut Phosphatisation: The Trilobites from the Weeks Formation Lagerstätte (Cambrian; Utah)
March 14, 2012 Rudy Lerosey-Aubril, Thomas Hegna, Carlo Kier, Enrico Bonino, Jörg Habersetzer, Matthieu Carré
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10.1371/journal.pone.0032051

PLOS ONE First Evidence of Reproductive Adaptation to “Island Effect” of a Dwarf Cretaceous Romanian Titanosaur, with Embryonic Integument In Ovo
March 8, 2012 gerald grellet-tinner, Vlad Codrea, Annelise Folie, ALessandra Higa, Thierry Smith
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10.1371/journal.pone.0031945

PLOS ONE The Late Jurassic Pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus, a Frequent Victim of the Ganoid Fish Aspidorhynchus?
March 7, 2012 Eberhard Frey, Helmut Tischlinger
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10.1371/journal.pone.0032623

PLOS ONE Torosaurus Is Not Triceratops: Ontogeny in Chasmosaurine Ceratopsids as a Case Study in Dinosaur Taxonomy
February 29, 2012 Nick Longrich, Daniel Field
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10.1371/journal.pone.0031392

PLOS ONE Life History of Rhamphorhynchus Inferred from Bone Histology and the Diversity of Pterosaurian Growth Strategies
February 15, 2012 Edina Prondvai, Koen Stein, Attila Ősi, Martin Sander
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10.1371/journal.pone.0030000

PLOS ONE Digital Cranial Endocast of Hyopsodus (Mammalia, “Condylarthra”): A Case of Paleogene Terrestrial Echolocation?
February 10, 2012 Maeva Orliac, Christine Argot, Emmanuel Gilissen
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10.1371/journal.pone.0031330

PLOS ONE New Specimens of Nemegtomaia from the Baruungoyot and Nemegt Formations (Late Cretaceous) of Mongolia
February 8, 2012 Federico Fanti, Philip Currie, Demchig Badamgarav
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10.1371/journal.pone.0031295

PLOS ONE Standardized Terminology and Potential Taxonomic Utility for Hadrosaurid Skin Impressions: A Case Study for Saurolophus from Canada and Mongolia
February 3, 2012 Phil Bell
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10.1371/journal.pone.0030471

PLOS ONE A New Eusuchian Crocodyliform with Novel Cranial Integument and Its Significance for the Origin and Evolution of Crocodylia
January 31, 2012 Casey Holliday, Nicholas Gardner
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10.1371/journal.pone.0030060

PLOS ONE The Braincase of the Basal Sauropod Dinosaur Spinophorosaurus and 3D Reconstructions of the Cranial Endocast and Inner Ear
January 17, 2012 Fabien Knoll, Lawrence Witmer, Francisco Ortega, Ryan Ridgely, Daniela Schwarz-Wings
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10.1371/journal.pone.0030212

PLOS ONE Homology and Architecture of the Caudal Basket of Pachycephalosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia): The First Occurrence of Myorhabdoi in Tetrapoda
January 17, 2012 Caleb Brown, Anthony Russell
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10.1371/journal.pone.0029135

PLOS ONE Evidence for a Grooming Claw in a North American Adapiform Primate: Implications for Anthropoid Origins
January 10, 2012 Stephanie Maiolino, Douglas Boyer, Jonathan Bloch, Christopher Gilbert, Joseph Groenke
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10.1371/journal.pone.0029841

PLOS ONE Cretaceous Small Scavengers: Feeding Traces in Tetrapod Bones from Patagonia, Argentina
January 9, 2012 Silvina de Valais, Sebastián Apesteguía, Alberto Garrido
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10.1371/journal.pone.0029958

PLOS ONE Bone Histology in Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki (Ornithischia: Iguanodontia) – Variation, Growth, and Implications
January 6, 2012 Tom Hübner
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10.1371/journal.pone.0029234

PLOS ONE New Ophthalmosaurid Ichthyosaurs from the European Lower Cretaceous Demonstrate Extensive Ichthyosaur Survival across the Jurassic–Cretaceous Boundary
January 3, 2012 Valentin Fischer, Michael Maisch, Darren Naish, Ralf Kosma, Jeff Liston, Ulrich Joger, Fritz Krüger, Judith Pardo Pérez, Jessica Tainsh, Robert Appleby
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10.1371/journal.pone.0029699

PLOS ONE The Making of a Monster: Postnatal Ontogenetic Changes in Craniomandibular Shape in the Great Sabercat Smilodon
January 3, 2012 Per Christiansen
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10.1371/journal.pone.0028442

PLOS ONE Reproductive Biology and Its Impact on Body Size: Comparative Analysis of Mammalian, Avian and Dinosaurian Reproduction
December 14, 2011 Jan Werner, Eva Griebeler
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10.1371/journal.pone.0028705

PLOS ONE ‘Nedoceratops’: An Example of a Transitional Morphology
December 14, 2011 John Scannella, John Horner
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10.1371/journal.pone.0028775

PLOS ONE Cryptic Diversity of African Tigerfish (Genus Hydrocynus) Reveals Palaeogeographic Signatures of Linked Neogene Geotectonic Events
December 14, 2011 Sarah Goodier, Fenton Cotterill, Colleen O'Ryan, Paul Skelton, Maarten de Wit
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10.1371/journal.pone.0028964

PLOS ONE The Predatory Ecology of Deinonychus and the Origin of Flapping in Birds
December 14, 2011 Denver Fowler, Elizabeth Freedman, John Scannella, Robert Kambic
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10.1371/journal.pone.0026882

PLOS ONE Tetradactyl Footprints of an Unknown Affinity Theropod Dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Morocco
December 13, 2011 Jaouad Nouri, Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Félix Pérez-Lorente
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10.1371/journal.pone.0028672

PLOS ONE Avian Wing Proportions and Flight Styles: First Step towards Predicting the Flight Modes of Mesozoic Birds
December 7, 2011 Xia Wang, Alistair McGowan, Gareth Dyke
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10.1371/journal.pone.0027343

PLOS ONE Three-Dimensionally Preserved Integument Reveals Hydrodynamic Adaptations in the Extinct Marine Lizard Ectenosaurus (Reptilia, Mosasauridae)
November 16, 2011 Johan Lindgren, Michael Everhart, Michael Caldwell
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10.1371/journal.pone.0026964

PLOS ONE A New Basal Sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from Quebrada del Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin), Northwestern Argentina
November 9, 2011 Cecilia Apaldetti, Ricardo Martínez, Oscar Alcober, Diego Pol
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10.1371/journal.pone.0027392

PLOS ONE The Primate Community of Cachoeira (Brazilian Amazonia): A Model to Decipher Ecological Partitioning among Extinct Species
November 4, 2011 Anusha Ramdarshan, Thomas Alloing-Séguier, Gildas Merceron, Laurent Marivaux
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10.1371/journal.pone.0024971

PLOS ONE Sabretoothed Carnivores and the Killing of Large Prey
October 19, 2011 Ki Andersson, David Norman, Lars Werdelin
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10.1371/journal.pone.0025763

PLOS ONE Dinosaur Speed Demon: The Caudal Musculature of Carnotaurus sastrei and Implications for the Evolution of South American Abelisaurids
October 17, 2011 Walter Persons, Philip Currie
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10.1371/journal.pone.0025693

PLOS ONE The Sail-Backed Reptile Ctenosauriscus from the Latest Early Triassic of Germany and the Timing and Biogeography of the Early Archosaur Radiation
October 14, 2011 Richard Butler, Stephen Brusatte, Mike Reich, Sterling Nesbitt, Rainer Schoch, Jahn Hornung
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10.1371/journal.pone.0025494

PLOS ONE Morphological and Geochemical Evidence of Eumelanin Preservation in the Feathers of the Early Cretaceous Bird, Gansus yumenensis
October 13, 2011 Holly Barden, Roy Wogelius, Daqing Li, Phillip Manning, Nicholas Edwards, Bart van Dongen
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10.1371/journal.pone.0026037

PLOS ONE A Computational Analysis of Limb and Body Dimensions in Tyrannosaurus rex with Implications for Locomotion, Ontogeny, and Growth
October 12, 2011 John Hutchinson, Karl Bates, Vivian Allen, Julia Molnar, Peter Makovicky
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10.1371/journal.pone.0026252

PLOS ONE Morphological and Molecular Evolution Are Not Linked in Lamellodiscus (Plathyhelminthes, Monogenea)
October 12, 2011 Timothée Poisot, Olivier Verneau, Yves Desdevises
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10.1371/journal.pone.0025483

PLOS ONE Oldest Known Pantherine Skull and Evolution of the Tiger
October 10, 2011 Ji Mazak, Per Christiansen, Andrew Kitchener
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10.1371/journal.pone.0025186

PLOS ONE Cranial Growth and Variation in Edmontosaurs (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae): Implications for Latest Cretaceous Megaherbivore Diversity in North America
September 28, 2011 Nicolas Campione, David Evans
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10.1371/journal.pone.0024938

PLOS ONE A New Paleozoic Symmoriiformes (Chondrichthyes) from the Late Carboniferous of Kansas (USA) and Cladistic Analysis of Early Chondrichthyans
September 27, 2011 Alan Pradel, Paul Tafforeau, John Maisey, Philippe Janvier