ArticleNature communications2013
The oldest North American pachycephalosaurid and the hidden diversity of small-bodied ornithischian dinosaurs.
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- Dinosaurs from the Santonian-Campanian Atlantic coastline substantiate phylogenetic signatures of vicariance in Cretaceous North America.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Taxonomic identification bias does not drive patterns of abundance and diversity in theropod dinosaurs.Biology letters · 2021Article
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- Craniodental and Postcranial Characters of Non-Avian Dinosauria Often Imply Different Trees.Systematic biology · 2020Article
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- A new dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) with Asian affinities from the latest Cretaceous of North America.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2013Article
- Skull morphology and histology indicate the presence of an unexpected buccal soft tissue structure in dinosaurs.Journal of anatomyArticle
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Abstract
Taphonomic biases dictate how organisms are represented in the fossil record, but their effect on studies of vertebrate diversity dynamics is poorly studied. In contrast to the high diversity and abundance of small-bodied animals in extant ecosystems, small-bodied dinosaurs are less common than their large-bodied counterparts, but it is unclear whether this reflects unique properties of dinosaurian ecosystems or relates to taphonomic biases. A new, fully domed pachycephalosaurid dinosaur, Acrotholus audeti, from the Santonian of Alberta predates incompletely domed taxa, and provides important new information on pachycephalosaur evolution and the completeness of the ornithischian fossil record. Here we provide the first empirical evidence that the diversity of small-bodied ornithischian dinosaurs is strongly underestimated based on ghost lineages and the high proportion of robust and diagnostic frontoparietal domes compared with other pachycephalosaur fossils. This suggests preservational biases have a confounding role in attempts to decipher vertebrate palaeoecology and diversity dynamics through the Mesozoic.
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