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ArticleNature2026

Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade.

Peter J Makovicky, Jonathan S Mitchell, Jorge G Meso, Federico A Gianechini, Ignacio Cerda, Sebastian Apesteguía

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Peter J MakovickyDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. pmakovic@umn.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9307-9982
Jonathan S MitchellBiology Department, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8666-5825
Jorge G MesoInstituto de Investigación en Paleobiología y Geología, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, General Roca, Argentina.
Federico A GianechiniInstituto Multidisciplinario de Investigaciones Biológicas de San Luis, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, San Luis, Argentina.
Ignacio CerdaInstituto de Investigación en Paleobiología y Geología, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, General Roca, Argentina.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6279-0392
Sebastian ApesteguíaÁrea de Paleontología, Fundación Azara, Universidad Maimónides, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0414-0524

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alvarezsauroids are an enigmatic clade of predominantly small-bodied theropod dinosaurs that are known mainly from the Jurassic to Cretaceous periods of Asia and South America

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Biological EvolutionDinosaursFossilsAnimalsArgentinaBody SizePhylogeny

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