@mcleod_jace @KellyPearsall3 @AiG https://t.co/N4TfWW40Ia
1At this point they are just PROPOSING THE IDEA and warn that it may simply be GROWTH STAGES OF RECOGNIZED FORMS
This explosion of new taxa has led some researchers (Sampson & Loewen, 2010; Sampson et al., 2010) to propose that ceratopsids radiated through
Basically the central embayment gets deeper through time (A-I, below from Fowler & Freedman Fowler 2020). Also note how the posterior bar of the parietal is thin and strut like (A, B) but then starts to get deeper and more rounded (C, F-H). From: https://t.co/UJE4JCOSOx https://t.co/ziMjZq34BX
@LancianIdolatry The maps show that during the mid Santonian, and at times Campanian, northern and southern parts of the Laramidia coastal plain were cut off from each other. This probably caused vicariance in various dinosaur lineages (e.g. chasmosaurines). Explained in https://t.co/Z2tUsBrHTZ