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Rates of dinosaur body mass evolution indicate 170 million years of sustained ecological innovation on the avian stem lineage by Benson, Roger B J, Campione, Nicolás E, Carrano, Matthew T, Mannion, Philip D, Sullivan, Corwin, Upchurch, Paul, Evans, David C

“…Large-scale adaptive radiations might explain the runaway success of a minority of extant vertebrate clades. This hypothesis predicts, among other things,…”
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Cope's rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution by Benson, Roger B. J., Hunt, Gene, Carrano, Matthew T., Campione, Nicolás, Mannion, Philip

“…The largest known dinosaurs weighed at least 20 million times as much as the smallest, indicating exceptional phenotypic divergence. Previous studies have…”
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The extinction of the dinosaurs by Brusatte, Stephen L., Butler, Richard J., Barrett, Paul M., Carrano, Matthew T., Evans, David C., Lloyd, Graeme T., Mannion, Philip D., Norell, Mark A., Peppe, Daniel J., Upchurch, Paul, Williamson, Thomas E.

“…ABSTRACT Non‐avian dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago, geologically coincident with the impact of a large bolide (comet or asteroid) during an…”
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Redescription of Brachiosaurid Sauropod Dinosaur Material From the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, Colorado, USA by D'Emic, Michael D., Carrano, Matthew T.

“…ABSTRACT Like many long‐standing dinosaur taxa, Brachiosaurus altithorax from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America suffers from taxonomic…”
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Body mass estimation in non‐avian bipeds using a theoretical conversion to quadruped stylopodial proportions by Campione, Nicolás E., Evans, David C., Brown, Caleb M., Carrano, Matthew T., Revell, Liam

“…Summary Body mass is strongly related to both physiological and ecological properties of living organisms. As a result, generating robust, broadly applicable…”
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Near-Stasis in the Long-Term Diversification of Mesozoic Tetrapods by Benson, Roger B J, Butler, Richard J, Alroy, John, Mannion, Philip D, Carrano, Matthew T, Lloyd, Graeme T

“…How did evolution generate the extraordinary diversity of vertebrates on land? Zero species are known prior to ~380 million years ago, and more than 30,000 are…”
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Ancient origins and multiple appearances of carotenoid-pigmented feathers in birds by Thomas, Daniel B., McGraw, Kevin J., Butler, Michael W., Carrano, Matthew T., Madden, Odile, James, Helen F.

“…The broad palette of feather colours displayed by birds serves diverse biological functions, including communication and camouflage. Fossil feathers provide…”
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Sea level, dinosaur diversity and sampling biases: investigating the ‘common cause’ hypothesis in the terrestrial realm by Butler, Richard J., Benson, Roger B. J., Carrano, Matthew T., Mannion, Philip D., Upchurch, Paul

“…The fossil record is our primary window onto the diversification of ancient life, but there are widespread concerns that sampling biases may distort observed…”
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A temperate palaeodiversity peak in Mesozoic dinosaurs and evidence for Late Cretaceous geographical partitioning by Mannion, Philip D., Benson, Roger B. J., Upchurch, Paul, Butler, Richard J., Carrano, Matthew T., Barrett, Paul M.

“…Aim: Modern biodiversity peaks in the tropics and declines poleward, a pattern that is potentially driven by climate. Although this latitudinal biodiversity…”
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The Fossil Calibration Database—A New Resource for Divergence Dating by Ksepka, Daniel T., Parham, James F., Allman, James F., Benton, Michael J., Carrano, Matthew T., Cranston, Karen A., Donoghue, Philip C. J., Head, Jason J., Hermsen, Elizabeth J., Irmis, Randall B., Joyce, Walter G., Kohli, Manpreet, Lamm, Kristin D., Leehr, Dan, Patané, Josés L., Polly, P. David, Phillips, Matthew J., Smith, N. Adam, Smith, Nathan D., Van Tuinen, Marcel, Ware, Jessica L., Warnock, Rachel C. M.

“…Fossils provide the principal basis for temporal calibrations, which are critical to the accuracy of divergence dating analyses. Translating fossil data into…”
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Pelvic and hindlimb musculature of Tyrannosaurus rex (Dinosauria: Theropoda) by Carrano, Matthew T., Hutchinson, John R.

“…In this article, we develop a new reconstruction of the pelvic and hindlimb muscles of the large theropod dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex. Our new reconstruction…”
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Climatic constraints on the biogeographic history of Mesozoic dinosaurs by Chiarenza, Alfio Alessandro, Mannion, Philip D., Farnsworth, Alex, Carrano, Matthew T., Varela, Sara

“…Dinosaurs dominated Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems globally. However, whereas a pole-to-pole geographic distribution characterized ornithischians and…”
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Morphological changes in pedal phalanges through ornithopod dinosaur evolution: A biomechanical approach by Moreno, Karen, Carrano, Matthew T., Snyder, Rebecca

“…The evolution of ornithopod dinosaurs provides a well‐documented example of the transition from digitigrady to subunguligrady. During this transition, the…”
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Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians by Mannion, Philip D., Benson, Roger B. J., Carrano, Matthew T., Tennant, Jonathan P., Judd, Jack, Butler, Richard J.

“…The fossil record of crocodylians and their relatives (pseudosuchians) reveals a rich evolutionary history, prompting questions about causes of long-term…”
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Testing the effect of the rock record on diversity: a multidisciplinary approach to elucidating the generic richness of sauropodomorph dinosaurs through time by Mannion, Philip D., Upchurch, Paul, Carrano, Matthew T., Barrett, Paul M.

“…The accurate reconstruction of palaeobiodiversity patterns is central to a detailed understanding of the macroevolutionary history of a group of organisms…”
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The theropod dinosaur Elaphrosaurus bambergi Janensch, 1920, from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania by Rauhut, Oliver W. M., Carrano, Matthew T.

“…Abstract Theropod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of Gondwana are still poorly known, with Elaphrosaurus bambergi Janensch, 1920, from the late Kimmeridgian…”
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The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) by Carrano, Matthew T., Benson, Roger B. J., Sampson, Scott D.

“…Tetanuran theropods represent the majority of Mesozoic predatory dinosaur diversity and the lineage leading to extant Aves. Thus their history is relevant to…”
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The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases by Close, Roger A, Benson, Roger B J, Alroy, John, Carrano, Matthew T, Cleary, Terri J, Dunne, Emma M, Mannion, Philip D, Uhen, Mark D, Butler, Richard J

“…There is no consensus about how terrestrial biodiversity was assembled through deep time, and in particular whether it has risen exponentially over the…”
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Synthesizing and databasing fossil calibrations: divergence dating and beyond by Ksepka, Daniel T, Benton, Michael J, Carrano, Matthew T, Gandolfo, Maria A, Head, Jason J, Hermsen, Elizabeth J, Joyce, Walter G, Lamm, Kristin S, Patané, José S. L, Phillips, Matthew J, Polly, P. David, Van Tuinen, Marcel, Ware, Jessica L, Warnock, Rachel C. M, Parham, James F

“…Divergence dating studies, which combine temporal data from the fossil record with branch length data from molecular phylogenetic trees, represent a rapidly…”
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The Phylogeny of Ceratosauria (Dinosauria: Theropoda) by Carrano, Matthew T., Sampson, Scott D.

“…Recent discoveries and analyses have drawn increased attention to Ceratosauria, a taxonomically and morphologically diverse group of basal theropods. By the…”
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