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Prolonged growth and extended subadult development in the Tyrannosaurus rex species complex revealed by expanded histological sampling and statistical modeling
Holly N. Woodward, Nathan P. Myhrvold, John R. Horner
A highly diverse Pennsylvanian tetrapod ichnoassemblage from the Semily Formation (Krkonoše Piedmont Basin, Czechia)
Gabriela Calábková, Jakub Březina, Roland Nádaskay
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High abundance of Early Miocene sea cows from Qatar shows repeated evolution of seagrass ecosystem engineers in Eastern Tethys
Nicholas D. Pyenson, Ferhan Sakal, Jacques LeBlanc, Jon Blundell, Katherine D. Klim, Christopher D. Marshall, Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Katherine Wolfe, Faisal Al-Naimi
Mandibular form and function is more disparate in amniotes than in non-amniote tetrapods from the late Palaeozoic
Jasper Ponstein, Mark J. MacDougall, Joep Schaeffer, Christian F. Kammerer, Jörg Fröbisch

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A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)
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Ontogeny in the tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus (Hadrosauridae) and heterochrony in hadrosaurids
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Why sauropods had long necks; and why giraffes have short necks
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The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific
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The petrosal and bony labyrinth of extinct horses (Perissodactyla, Equidae) and their implications for perissodactyl evolution
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High abundance of Early Miocene sea cows from Qatar shows repeated evolution of seagrass ecosystem engineers in Eastern Tethys
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The phylogenetic relationships of basal archosauromorphs, with an emphasis on the systematics of proterosuchian archosauriforms
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International Dinosaur Day Collection
Third International Workshop on the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event – Impact on marine organisms and ecosystems
The Biology of Sesamoid Tissues in Vertebrates
Open Data and Analysis: from morphology to evolutionary patterns Workshop at the Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft 2019
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