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200 years of dinosaur discoveries –a visual portrayal of their geographic and historical origins / Donald M. Henderson, 2026 / PeerJ 14:e21351 /PDFPDF

Tail of defence: an almost complete tail skeleton of Plateosaurus (Sauropodomorpha, Late Triassic) reveals possible defence strategies / Thomas Filek, Matthias Kranner, Ben Pabst, Ursula B. Göhlich, 2025 / Royal Society Open Science 12: 250325 /PDF

Taphonomic analysis of Thanatosdrakon amaru (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea) and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Plottier Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Neuquén Basin), Mendoza, Argentina / Ortiz-David et al., 2025 / Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97 (Suppl. 1): e20250487 /PDFPDF

Taphonomic analysis of the exceptional preservation of early bird feathers during the early Cretaceous period in Northeast China / Zhao et al., 2023 / Frontiers in Earth Science, Volume 10 /PDFPDF

Taphonomy and taxonomy of a juvenile lambeosaurine (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) bonebed from the late Campanian Wapiti Formation of northwestern Alberta, Canada / Holland et al., 2021 / PeerJ 9:e11290PDFPDF

Taphonomic variation in vascular remains from Mesozoic non-avian dinosaurs / Schweitzer et al., 2025 / Scientific Reports, Volume 15, Article number: 4359 (2025) /PDFPDF

Taxonomic and stratigraphic update of the material historically attributed to Megalosaurus from Portugal / Elisabete Malafaia, Pedro Mocho, Fernando Escaso, Ivan Narvaéz, Francisco Ortega, 2024 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69 (2), 2024: 127-171 /PDFPDF

Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England / Rodrigues et al., 2013 / ZooKeys 308: 1–112 (2013) /PDFPDF

Taxonomic Status of Nanotyrannus lancensis (Dinosauria: Tyrannosauroidea) - A Distinct Taxon of Small-Bodied Tyrannosaur / Nicholas R. Longrich, Evan T. Saitta, 2024 / Fossil Studies 2024, 2, 1-65 /PDFPDF

Taxonomic utility of isolated ankylosaurian dinosaur teeth using traditional and geometric morphometrics with implications for ankylosaur paleoecology / Emily Cross, Andrew J. Fraass, Victoria M. Arbour, 2025 / Journal of Paleontology, 1–17/ PDFPDF

Taxonomy, morphology, masticatory function and phylogeny of heterodontosaurid dinosaurs / Paul C. Sereno, 2012 / ZooKeys 226: 1-225 /PDFPDF

Taxonomy of the Lonchodectidae (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) / A. O. Averianov, 2020 / Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS, Vol. 324, No. 1, 2020, pp. 41–55 /PDFPDF

Teeth of embryonic or hatchling sauropods from the Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) of Cherves-de-Cognac, France / Barrett et al., 2016 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 (3), 2016: 591-596 /PDFPDF

Ten more years of discovery: revisiting the quality of the sauropodomorph dinosaur fossil record / Cashmore et al., 2020 / Palaeontology, Volume 63, Issue 6, November 2020, Pages 951-978 /PDFPDF

Testing for a dietary shift in the Early Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis / Landi et al., 2021 / Palaeontology, Volume 64, Issue 3, May 2021, Pages 371-384. /PDFPDF

Testing Utility: Developing an Assessment to Evaluate Tyrannosaurus rex Forelimb Use Cases / Don Arp, 2020 / Biosis: Biological Systems, Vol. 1 No. 3 (2020) /PDFPDF

The absence of an invasive air sac system in the earliest dinosaurs suggests multiple origins of vertebral pneumaticity / Tito Aureliano, Aline M. Ghilardi, Rodrigo T. Müller, Leonardo Kerber, Flávio A. Pretto, Marcelo A. Fernandes, Fresia Ricardi‑Branco, Mathew J. Wedel, 2022 / Scientific Reports, (2022) 12:20844 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The Anatomy and Phylogenetic Relationships of “Pelorosaurus“ becklesii (Neosauropoda, Macronaria) from the Early Cretaceous of England / Upchurch et al., 2015 / PLoS ONE 10(6): e0125819 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The anatomy of the palate in Early Triassic Chaohusaurus brevifemoralis (Reptilia: Ichthyosauriformes) based on digital reconstruction / Ya-Lei Yin, Cheng Ji, Min Zhou​, 2021 / PeerJ 9:e11727 PDFPDF

The anatomy of two troodontid teeth from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiayin, Heilongjiang Province, China / Ya-Lei Yin, Bu-Yu Wu, Rui Pei, Hong-Gang Zhang, Xin Zhang, Feng-Bin Shen, Xu Xing, 2026 / Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 823-837 /PDFPDF

The ankle joint of Pterodaustro guinazui / Burlot et al., 2024 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69 (2), 2024: 329-350 /PDFPDF

The appendicular myology of Stegoceras validum (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauridae) and implications for the head-butting hypothesis / Moore et al., 2022 / PLoS ONE 17(9): e0268144 /PDFPDF

The appendicular skeleton of Neuquensaurus, a Late Cretaceous saltasaurine sauropod from Patagonia, Argentina / Alejandro Otero, 2010 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55 (3): 399–426 /PDFPDF

The Basal Nodosaurid Ankylosaur Europelta carbonensis n. gen., n. sp. from the Lower Cretaceous (Lower Albian) Escucha Formation of Northeastern Spain / Kirkland et al., 2013 / PLoS ONE 8(12): e80405 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The Behavioral Implications of a Multi-Individual Bonebed of a Small Theropod Dinosaur / Ibiricu et al., 2013 / PLoS ONE 8(5): e64253 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The biomechanical significance of bifurcated cervical ribs in apatosaurine sauropods / Matt Wedel, Mike Taylor, 2023 / Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology, Volume 11, 2023, Pages 91–100 /PDFPDF

The Biomechanics Behind Extreme Osteophagy in Tyrannosaurus rex / Paul M. Gignac, Gregory M. Erickson, 2012 / Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 2012 (2017). /PDFPDF

The body plan of Halszkaraptor escuilliei (Dinosauria, Theropoda) is not a transitional form along the evolution of dromaeosaurid hypercarnivory / Andrea Cau​, 2020 / PeerJ 8:e8672 /PDFPDF

The braincase of Malawisaurus dixeyi (Sauropoda: Titanosauria): A 3D reconstruction of the brain endocast and inner ear / Andrzejewski et al., 2019 / PLoS ONE 14(2): e0211423 /PDFPDF

The Braincase of the Basal Sauropod Dinosaur Spinophorosaurus and 3D Reconstructions of the Cranial Endocast and Inner Ear / Knoll et al., 2012 / PLoS ONE 7(1): e30060 / PDFPDF

The Chicxulub Impact Produced a Powerful Global Tsunami / Range et al., 2022 / AGU Advances, Volume 3, Issue 5, October 2022, e2021AV000627 / PDFPDF

The coevolution of rostral keratin and tooth distribution in dinosaurs / Isaura Aguilar-Pedrayes, Jacob D. Gardner, Chris L. Organ, 2024 / Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Volume 291, Issue 2015 /PDFPDF

The coelurosaur theropods of the Romualdo formation, early Cretaceous (Aptian) of Brazil: Santanaraptor placidus meets Mirischia asymmetrica / Delcourt et al., 2025 / The Anatomical Record, 1-38 /PDFPDF

The Completeness of the Fossil Record of Mesozoic Birds: Implications for Early Avian Evolution / Neil Brocklehurst, Paul Upchurch, Philip D. Mannion, Jingmai O'Connor, 2012 / PLoS ONE 7(6): e39056 /PDFPDF

The cranial anatomy of the long-snouted tyrannosaurid dinosaur Qianzhousaurus sinensis from the Upper Cretaceous of China / Foster et al., 2022 / Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Volume 41, Issue 4 /PDFPDF

The Cretaceous Dinosaur Record from Normandy (NW France): A Review / Eric Buffetaut, 2026 / Fossil Studies 4(1): 5 /PDFPDF

The dentition of megalosaurid theropods / Christophe Hendrickx, Octávio Mateus, Ricardo Araújo, 2015 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (3), 2015: 627-642 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The diet of early birds based on modern and fossil evidence and a new framework for its reconstruction / Case Vincent Miller, Michael Pittman, 2021 / Biological Reviews (2021)PDFPDF

The digital Plateosaurus II: An assessment of the range of motion of the limbs and vertebral column and of previous reconstructions using a digital skeletal mount / Heinrich Mallison, 2010 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55 (3), 2010: 433-458 PDF

The dinosaur Hadrosaurus foulkii, from the Campanian of the East Coast of North America, with a reevaluation of the genus / Albert Prieto-Márquez, David Weishampel, John Horner, 2006 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51 (1), 2006: 77-98 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The dinosaurs that weren’t: osteohistology supports giant ichthyosaur affinity of enigmatic large bone segments from the European Rhaetian / Marcello Perillo​, P Martin Sander, 2024 / PeerJ 12:e17060 /PDFPDF

The discovery, local distribution, and curation of the giant azhdarchid pterosaurs from Big Bend National Park / Matthew A. Brown, J. Chris Sagebiel, Brian Andres, 2021 / Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 41:sup1, 2-20 / PDFPDF

The ecology and geography of temnospondyl recovery after the Permian–Triassic mass extinction / Aamir Mehmood, Suresh A. Singh, Armin Elsler, Michael J. Benton, 2025 / Royal Society Open Science, 12241200 /PDFPDF

The ecology of Archaeopteryx / Jingmai K. O’Connor, Alexander D. Clark, 2026 / Discover Ecology, Volume 2, Article number 12 /PDFPDF

The earliest known titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur and the evolution of Brachiosauridae / Philip D. Mannion​, Ronan Allain​, Olivier Moine, 2017 / PeerJ 5:e3217 /PDFPDF

The Early Evolution of Postcranial Skeletal Pneumaticity in Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs / Adam M. Yates, Mathew J. Wedel, Matthew F. Bonnan, 2012 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(1):85-100. 2012 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The early fossil record of dinosaurs in North America: A new neotheropod from the base of the Upper Triassic Dockum Group of Texas / Sterling J. Nesbitt, Martín D. Ezcurra, 2015 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (3), 2015: 513-526 /PDFPDF

The Earliest Feathers from the Lower Cretaceous Dabeigou Formation of North Hebei: Implications for the Early Evolution of the Jehol Biota / Qian Wu, Qian-Nan Zhang, Dang-Peng Xi, 2026 / Integrative Zoology , 2026; 0:1–16 /PDFPDF

The Effect of Intervertebral Cartilage on Neutral Posture and Range of Motion in the Necks of Sauropod Dinosaurs / Michael P. Taylor, Mathew J. Wedel, 2013 / PLoS ONE 8(10): e78214 /PDFPDF

The Endocranial Anatomy of Therizinosauria and Its Implications for Sensory and Cognitive Function< / Stephan Lautenschlager, Emily J. Rayfield, Perle Altangerel, Lindsay E. Zanno, Lawrence M. Witmer, 2012 / PLoS ONE 7(12): e52289 /PDFPDF

The endocranium and trophic ecology of Velociraptor mongoliensis / King et al., 2020 / Journal of Anatomy. 2020;00:1-9 /PDFPDF

The endocranial morphology and inner ear of the abelisaurid theropod Aucasaurus garridoi / Ariana Paulina-Carabajal, Cecilia Succar, 2015 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (1), 2015: 141-144 /PDFPDF

The enamel microstructure of Manidens condorensis: New hypotheses on the ancestral state and evolution of enamel in Ornithischia / Marcos G. Becerra, Diego Pol, 2020 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65 (1), 2020: 59-70 /PDFPDF

The evolution of femoral morphology in giant non-avian theropod dinosaurs / Romain Pintore, John R. Hutchinson, Peter J. Bishop, Henry P. Tsai, Alexandra Houssaye, 2024 / Paleobiology, Volume 50, Issue 2, pp.308-329 /PDFPDF

The evolution of pelvic limb muscle moment arms in bird-line archosaurs / V. R. Allen, M. Kilbourne, J. R. Hutchinson, 2021 / Science Advances, Vol. 7, no. 12, eabe2778 /PDFPDF

The Extent of the Preserved Feathers on the Four-Winged Dinosaur Microraptor gui under Ultraviolet Light / David W. E. Hone, Helmut Tischlinger, Xing Xu, Fucheng Zhang, 2010 / PLoS ONE 5(2): e9223 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The extent of the pterosaur flight membrane / Ross A. Elgin, David W. E. Hone, Eberhard Frey, 2011 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (1), 2011: 99-111 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The exquisitely preserved integument of Psittacosaurus and the scaly skin of ceratopsian dinosaurs / Phil R. Bell, Christophe Hendrickx, Michael Pittman, Thomas G. Kaye, Gerald Mayr, 2022 / Communications Biology, 5, 809 (2022) /PDFPDF

The fast and the frugal: Divergent locomotory strategies drive limb lengthening in theropod dinosaurs / Dececchi et al., 2020 / PLoS ONE 15(5): e0223698 /PDFPDF

The first deep-snouted tyrannosaur from Upper Cretaceous Ganzhou City of southeastern China / Zheng et al., 2024 / Scientific Reports, Volume 14, Article number: 16276 /PDFPDF

The first edentulous ceratosaur from South America / de Souza et al., 2021 / Scientific Reports, Volume 11, Article number: 22281 (2021) /PDFPDF

The first giant raptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae) from the Hell Creek Formation / DePalma et al., 2015 / Paleontological Contributions (14) /PDFPDF

The first ornithocheiromorph humerus from Wuerho (Urho), China, with a new isotopic age of the Tugulu Group / Junyi Song, Yuting Zhong, Shunzing Jiang, Xialing Wang, 2025 / Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 97 (suppl 1), 2025 /PDFPDF

The first ornithomimosaur remains from Germany / Denis Theda, Darius Nau, René Dederichs, Achim H. Schwermann, 2025 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70 (3), 2025: 543-555 / PDFPDF

The first pterosaur pelvic material from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) and implications for azhdarchid locomotion / Gregory F. Funston, Elizabeth Martin-Silverstone, Philip J. Currie, 2017 / FACETS, Volume 2, Nr. 1, pp. 559-574, 2017PDFPDF

The first theropod dinosaur (Coelurosauria, Theropoda) from the base of the Romualdo Formation (Albian), Araripe Basin, Northeast Brazil / Manso Sayão et al., 2020 / Scientific Reports, Volume 10, Article number: 10892 /PDFPDF

The first giant titanosaurian sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of North America / Denver W. Fowler, Robert M. Sullivan, 2011 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (4), 2011: 685-690 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The first juvenile dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from Arctic Alaska / Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Anthony R. Fiorillo, Ronald S. Tykoski, Paul J. McCarthy, Peter P. Flaig, Dori L. Contreras, 2020 / PLoS ONE 15(7): e0235078. PDFPDF

The first occurrence of an avian-style respiratory infection in a non-avian dinosaur / Woodruff et al., 2022 / Scientific Reports, Volume 12, Article number: 1954 (2022) /PDFPDF

The first oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) bonebed: evidence of gregarious behaviour in a maniraptoran theropod / Funston et al., 2016 / Scientific Reports volume 6, Article number: 35782 (2016) /PDFPDF

The first dinosaur postcranial body fossils from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Utah / Adam D. Marsh, Donald D. De Blieux, James I. Kirkland, 2024 / Geology of the Intermountain West, v. 11, p. 45-57 /PDFPDF

The first record of Tuarangisaurus (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Maastrichtian of the Lefipán Formation, Chubut, Argentina / José P. O’Gorman, Roberto A. Scasso, Francisco A. Medina, 2026 / Palaeontologia Electronica, Article number: 29.2.a29 /PDFPDF

The first specimen of Camarasaurus (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from Montana: The northernmost occurrence of the genus / D. Cary Woodruff, John R. Foster, 2017 / PLoS ONE 12(5): e0177423 /PDFPDF

The first small-bodied ornithopod dinosaur from the Lewisville Formation (middle Cenomanian) of Texas / Ronald S. Tykoski, Dori L. Contreras, Christopher Noto, 2023 / Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2257238 /PDFPDF

The Functional and Palaeoecological Implications of Tooth Morphology and Wear for the Megaherbivorous Dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada / Jordan C. Mallon, Jason S. Anderson, 2014 / PLoS ONE 9(6): e98605 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The furculae of the dromaeosaurid dinosaur Dakotaraptor steini are trionychid turtle entoplastra / Arbour et al., 2016 / PeerJ 4:e1691 /PDFPDF

The geologically oldest specimen of Pterodactylus: a new exquisitely preserved skeleton from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Plattenkalk deposits of Painten (Bavaria, Germany) / Augustin et al., 2022 / Fossil Record 25 (2) 2022, 331–343 /PDFPDF

The giant pliosaurid that wasn’t - revising the marine reptiles from the Kimmeridgian, Upper Jurassic, of Krzyżanowice, Poland / Madzia et al. 2021 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (1), 2021: 99-129 PDFPDF

The Hesperornithiformes: A Review of the Diversity, Distribution, and Ecology of the Earliest Diving Birds / Alyssa Bell, Luis M. Chiappe, 2022 / Diversity 2022, 14(4 /PDFPDF

The internal anatomy of titanosaur osteoderms from the Upper Cretaceous of Spain is compatible with a role in oogenesis / Vidal et al., 2017 / Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 42035 (2017) /PDFPDF

The Italian record of the Cretaceous shark, Ptychodus latissimus Agassiz, 1835 (Chondrichthyes; Elasmobranchii) / Amadori et al.​, 2020 / PeerJ 8:e10167 /PDFPDF

The Jehol Biota, an Early Cretaceous terrestrial Lagerstätte: new discoveries and implications / Zhonghe Zhou, 2014 / National Science Review 1: 543–559, 2014 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The lambeosaurine dinosaur Amurosaurus riabinini, from the Maastrichtian of Far Eastern Russia / Pascal Godefroit, Yuri L. Bolotsky, Jimmy van Itterbeeck, 2004 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49 (4), 2004: 585-618 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The Lambeosaurine Dinosaur Magnapaulia laticaudus from the Late Cretaceous of Baja California, Northwestern Mexico / Albert Prieto-Márquez, Luis M. Chiappe, Shantanu H. Joshi, 2012 / PLoS ONE 7(6): e38207 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The largest European theropod dinosaurs: remains of a gigantic megalosaurid and giant theropod tracks from the Kimmeridgian of Asturias, Spain / Rauhut​ et al., 2018 / PeerJ 6:e4963 /PDFPDF

The largest sauropodomorph skull from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of China / Qian-Nan Zhang, Lei Jia, Tao Wang, Yu-Guang Zhang, Hai-Lu You, 2024 / PeerJ 12:e18629 /PDFPDF

The last giants: New evidence for giant Late Triassic (Rhaetian) ichthyosaurs from the UK / Lomax et al., , 2024 / PLoS ONE 19(4): e0300289 /PDFPDF

The living dinosaur: accomplishments and challenges of reconstructing dinosaur physiology / Stephanie L. Baumgart, Clinton A. Grand Pré, Jason M. Bourke, Emma R. Schachner, 2025 / Biology Letters, Volume 21, Issue 5 /PDFPDF

The Lower Cretaceous in East-Central Utah - The Cedar Mountain Formation and its Bounding Strata / James I. Kirkland, Marina Suarez, Celina Suarez, ReBecca Hunt-Foster, 2016 / Geology of the Intermountain West, v. 3, p. 101–228 /PDFPDF

The macroecology of Mesozoic dinosaurs / Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, 2024 / Biology Letters, Volume 20, Issue 11 /PDFPDF

The Mesozoic terminated in boreal spring / During et al., 2022 / Nature, Volume 603, Pages 91–94 (2022) /PDFPDF

The Morrison Formation Sauropod Consensus: A freely accessible online spreadsheet of collected sauropod specimens, their housing institutions, contents, references, localities, and other potentially useful information / Tschopp et al., 2019 / PaleorXiv. October 30 /PDFPDF

The most basal ankylosaurine dinosaur from the Albian–Cenomanian of China, with implications for the evolution of the tail club / Zheng et al., 2018 / Scientific Reports, Volume 8, Article number: 3711 (2018) / PDFPDF

The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae / Jessie Atterholt​, J. Howard Hutchison, Jingmai K. O’Connor, 2018 / PeerJ 6:e5910 /PDFPDF

The most detailed anatomical reconstruction of a Mesozoic coelacanth / Manuelli et al., 2024 / PLoS ONE 19(11): e0312026 /PDFPDF

The new ichnotaxon Eubrontes nobitai ichnosp. nov. and other saurischian tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of Sichuan Province and a review of Chinese Eubrontes-type tracks / Xing et al., 2021 / Journal of Palaeogeography, Volume 10, Article number: 17 (2021) PDFPDF

The oldest Archaeopteryx (Theropoda: Avialiae): a new specimen from the Kimmeridgian/Tithonian boundary of Schamhaupten, Bavaria / Oliver W. M. Rauhut, Christian Foth, Helmut Tischlinger, 2018 / PeerJ 6:e4191 /PDFPDF

The oldest ceratosaurian (Dinosauria: Theropoda), from the Lower Jurassic of Italy, sheds light on the evolution of the three-fingered hand of birds / Cristiano Dal Sasso, Simone Maganuco, Andrea Cau, 2018 / PeerJ 6:e5976 /PDFPDF

The oldest fossil bird-like footprints from the upper Triassic of southern Africa / Miengah Abrahams, Emese M. Bordy, 2023 / PLoS ONE 18(11): e0293021 /PDFPDF

The Oldest Jurassic Dinosaur: A Basal Neotheropod from the Hettangian of Great Britain / David M. Martill, Steven U. Vidovic, Cindy Howells, John R. Nudds, 2016 / PLoS ONE 11(1): e0145713 /PDFPDF

The oldest monofenestratan pterosaur from the Queso Rallado locality (Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Toarcian) of Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina / Alexandra E. Fernandes, Diego Pol, Oliver W. M. Rauhut, 2024 / Royal Society Open Science, Volume 11, Issue 12 /PDFPDF

The oldest record of Alvarezsauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) in the Northern Hemisphere / Alexander Averianov, Hans-Dieter Sues, 2017 / PLoS ONE12(10): e0186254 /PDFPDF

The oldest record of ornithuromorpha from the early cretaceous of China / Wang et al., 2015 / Nature Communications 6, Article number: 6987 / doi:10.1038/ncomms7987PDFPDF

The Ontogenetic Osteohistology of Tenontosaurus tilletti / Sarah Werning, 2012 / PLoS ONE 7(3): e33539 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The origin and early evolution of the ornithischian bauplan: evaluation and implications for the Dinosauria / Norman et al., 2024 / Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève (2024) 43 (1): 61-83 /PDFPDF

The origin of an invasive air sac system in sauropodomorph dinosaurs / Aureliano et al., 2023 / The Anatomical Record, 2023;1–9 /PDFPDF

The origin of endothermy in synapsids and archosaurs and arms races in the Triassi / Michael J. Benton, 2020 / Gondwana Research, Volume 100, December 2021, Pages 261-289 /PDFPDF

The origins of neural spine elongation in iguanodontian dinosaurs and the osteology of a new sail-back styracosternan (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous Wealden Group of England / Jeremy A. F. Lockwood, David M. Martill, Susannah C. R. Maidment, 2025 / Papers in Palaeontology, Volume 11, Issue 4, e70034/PDFPDF

The osteology and affinities of Eotyrannus lengi, a tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wealden Supergroup of southern England / Darren Naish, Andrea Cau, 2022 / PeerJ 10:e12727 /PDFPDF

The osteology of Ferrodraco lentoni, an anhanguerid pterosaur from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia / Pentland et al., 2022 / Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2038182 /PDFPDF

The osteology, taxonomy, and phylogenetic affinities of the Early Jurassic plesiosaur Lusonectes sauvagei / Sven Sachs, Daniel Madzia, 2026 / PeerJ 14:e20611 PDFPDF

The palaeoenvironment of the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, Queensland, Australia / Fletcher​ et al., 2018 / PeerJ 6:e5513 /PDFPDF

The phylogenetic affinities and morphological peculiarities of the bird-like dinosaur Borogovia gracilicrus from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia / Andrea Cau​, Daniel Madzia, 2021 / PeerJ 9:e12640 /PDFPDF

The phylogenetic position of the ornithischian dinosaur Stenopelix valdensis from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany: implications for the early fossil record of Pachycephalosauria Richard J. Butler, Robert M. Sullivan, 2009 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54 (1), 2009: 21-34 /PDFPDF

The phylogenetic nomenclature of ornithischian dinosaurs / Madzia​ et al., 2021 / PeerJ 9:e12362 / PDFPDF

The plated dinosaurs (Ornithischia, Stegosauria) of eastern Iberia (Spain): Taxonomy, diversity, and ecology / Sergio Sánchez-Fenollosa, Alberto Cobos, Maite Suñer, 2026 / Palaeontologia Electronica, Article number: 29.1.a13 /PDFPDF

The Postcranial Skeleton of an Exceptionally Complete Individual of the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus stenops (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A. / Susannah Catherine Rose Maidment, Charlotte Brassey, Paul Michael Barrett, 2015 / PLoS ONE 10(10): e0138352PDFPDF

The postcranial skeleton of Vagaceratops irvinensis (Dinosauria, Ceratopsidae) / Robert B. Holmes, 2014 / Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology, 1, 1-21PDFPDF

The Presence of an Orbitoantorbital Fenestra: Further Evidence of the Anurognathid Peculiarity Within the Pterosauria / Fabio Dalla Vecchia, 2022 / Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Vol. 128(1): 23-42/PDFPDF

The rarity of gastroliths in sauropod dinosaurs – a case study in the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, western USA / Oliver Wings, 2014 / Fossil Record, 18, 1–16 /PDFPDF

The real Bigfoot: a pes from Wyoming, USA is the largest sauropod pes ever reported and the northern-most occurrence of brachiosaurids in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation / Anthony Maltese​1, Emanuel Tschopp​, Femke Holwerda, David Burnham, 2018 / PeerJ 6:e5250 /PDFPDF

The redescription of the holotype of Nothosaurus mirabilis (Diapsida, Eosauropterygia) - a historical skeleton from the Muschelkalk (Middle Triassic, Anisian) near Bayreuth (southern Germany) / Nicole Klein​, Stefan Eggmaier, Hans Hagdorn, 2022 / PeerJ 10:e13818 /PDFPDF

The relationships of Cuspicephalus scarfi Martill and Etches, 2013 and Normannognathus wellnhoferi Buffetaut et al., 1998 to other monofenestratan pterosaurs / M. P. Witton, M. O'Sullivan, D. M. Martill, 2015 / Contributions to Zoology, 82, 2, pp 115-127 PDFPDF

The rostral neurovascular system of Tyrannosaurus rex / Florian Bouabdellah, Emily Lessner, Julien Benoit, 2022 / Palaeontologia Electronica, 25(1):a3 /PDFPDF

The sauropodomorph biostratigraphy of the Elliot Formation of southern Africa: Tracking the evolution of Sauropodomorpha across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary / Blair W. McPhee, Emese M. Bordy, Lara Sciscio, Jonah N. Choiniere, 2017 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62 (3), 2017: 441-465 /PDFPDF

The Slothful Claw: Osteology and Taphonomy of Nothronychus mckinleyi and N. graffami (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and Anatomical Considerations for Derived Therizinosaurids / Hedrick et al., 2015 / PLoS ONE 10(6): e0129449 /PDFPDF

The smallest biggest theropod dinosaur: a tiny pedal ungual of a juvenile Spinosaurus from the Cretaceous of Morocco / Autoren: Simone Maganuco​​, Cristiano Dal Sasso​, 2018 / PeerJ 6:e4785 /PDFPDF

The Smallest Diplodocid Skull Reveals Cranial Ontogeny and Growth-Related Dietary Changes in the Largest Dinosaurs / Woodruff et al., 2018; 8: 14341 /PDFPDF

The soft tissue and skeletal anatomy of two Late Jurassic ichthyosaur specimens from the Solnhofen archipelago / Lene L. Delsett​, Henrik Friis, Martina Kölbl-Ebert, Jørn H. Hurum, 2022 / PeerJ 10:e13173 /PDFPDF

The stability of dinosaur communities before the K−Pg boundary: A perspective from southern Alberta using calcium isotopes as a dietary proxy / Martin et al., 2022 / GSA Bulletin (2022) / PDFPDF

The systematics of Late Jurassic tyrannosauroid theropods from Europe and North America / Stephen L. Brusatte, Roger B.J. Benson, 2013 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58 (1), 2013: 47-54 /PDFPDF

The systematic relationships and biogeographic history of ornithischian dinosaurs / Clint A. Boyd, 2015 / PeerJ 3:e1523 /PDFPDF

The teeth of the unenlagiine theropod Buitreraptor from the Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina, and the unusual dentition of the Gondwanan dromaeosaurids / Federico A. Gianechini, Peter J. Makovicky, Sebastian Apesteguia, 2011 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (2), 2011: 279-290 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, southern Tanzania): definition, palaeoenvironments, and sequence stratigraphy / Robert Bussert, Wolf-Dieter Heinrich, Martin Aberhan, 2009 / Fossil Record, Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 141-174 /PDFPDF

The titanosaur sauropods from the late Campanian–early Maastrichtian Allen Formation of Salitral Moreno, Río Negro, Argentina / Rodolfo A. Garcia, Leonardo Salgado, 2013 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58 (2), 2013: 269-284 /PDFPDF

The toothless pterosaur Jidapterus edentus (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea) from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota and its paleoecological implications / Wen-Hao Wu, Chang-Fu Zhou, Brian Andres, 2017 / PLoS ONE 12(9): e0185486 /PDFPDF

The ‘Unicorn’ Dinosaur That Wasn’t: A New Reconstruction of the Crest of Tsintaosaurus and the Early Evolution of the Lambeosaurine Crest and Rostrum / Albert Prieto-Márquez, Jonathan R. Wagner, 2013 / PLoS ONE 8(11): 82268 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

The unusual tail of Tethyshadros insularis (Dinosauria, Hadrosauroidea) from the Adriatic Island of the European archipelago / Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia, 2020 / Riv. It. Paleontol. Strat., 126(3): 583-628 /PDFPDF

The variability of inner ear orientation in saurischian dinosaurs: testing the use of semicircular canals as a reference system for comparative anatomy / Jesus Marugan-Lob, Luis M. Chiappe, Andrew A. Farke, 2013 / PeerJ 1:e124 /PDF

The Venice specimen of Ouranosaurus nigeriensis (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) / Filippo Bertozzo​​, Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia​, Matteo Fabbri​, 2017 / PeerJ 5:e3403PDFPDF

The world’s oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco / Maidment et al., 2025 / Royal Society Open Science 12: 241624 /PDFPDF

The “χ” of the Matter: Testing the Relationship between Paleoenvironments and Three Theropod Clades / Marcos A. F. Sales, Marcel B. Lacerda, Bruno L. D. Horn, Isabel A. P. de Oliveira, Cesar L. Schultz, 2016 / PLoS ONE 11(2): e0147031 /PDFPDF

Theropod courtship: large scale physical evidence of display arenas and avian-like scrape ceremony behaviour by Cretaceous dinosaurs / Lockley et al., 2016 / Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 18952 (2016) /PDFPDF

Theropod dinosaurs from Argentina / Martin Daniel Ezcurra, Fernando Emilio Novas, 2016 /Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia; Contribuciones del MACN; 6; 5-2016; 139-156 /PDFPDF

Theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of the South Pyrenees Basin of Spain / Angelica Torices, Philip J. Currie, Jose Ignacio Canudo, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, 2015 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (3), 2015: 611-626 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

Theropod footprints from the Lower Cretaceous Cangxi Formation in the Northern Margin of the Sichuan Basin, China / Xing et al., 2021 / Biosis: Biological Systems, 2(1), 174-182PDFPDF

Theropod specimens from the Navesink Formation and their implications for the Diversity and Biogeography of Ornithomimosaurs and Tyrannosauroids on Appalachia / Chase Doran Brownstein, 2017 / PeerJ Preprints 5:e3105v1 /PDFPDF

Theropod teeth from the upper Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation “Sue” Quarry: New morphotypes and faunal comparisons / Terry A. Gates, Lindsay E. Zanno, Peter J. Makovicky, 2015 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (1), 2015: 131-139 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

Three-dimensional elasto-plastic soil modelling and analysis of sauropod tracks / Eugenio Sanz, Antonio Arcos, Carlos Pascual, Ignacio Menendez Pidal, 2016 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 (2), 2016: 387-402 /PDFPDF

Three-dimensional geometric morphometric analysis of the skull of Protoceratops andrewsi supports a socio-sexual signalling role for the ceratopsian frill / A. Knapp, R.J. Knell, D.W.E. Hone, 2021 / Proc. R. Soc. B288: 20202938, Issue 1944 / PDFPDF

Titanosaur Osteoderms from the Upper Cretaceous of Lo Hueco (Spain) and Their Implications on the Armor of Laurasian Titanosaurs / Daniel Vidal, Francisco Ortega, José Luis Sanz, 2014 / PLoS ONE 9(8): e102488 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

Titanosauria of the Bauru Group: a summary of records and their importance for understanding the diversity of the clade in Brazil / Nascimento et al., 2025 / Andean Geology, Volume 52, No. 3, pp 343-362/PDFPDF

Tochisaurus nemegtensis gen. et sp. n., a new troodontid (dinosauria, theropoda) from Mongolia / Sergej M. Kurzanov, Halszka Osmólska, 1991 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 36 (1), 1991: 69-76 /PDFPDF

Tooth development, histology, and enamel microstructure in Changchunsaurus parvus: Implications for dental evolution in ornithopod dinosaurs / Jun Chen, Aaron R. H. LeBlanc, Liyong Jin, Timothy Huang, Robert R. Reisz, 2018 / PLoS ONE 13(11): e0205206 / PDFPDF

Tooth replacement in the early-diverging neornithischian Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis and implications for dental evolution and herbivorous adaptation in Ornithischia / Jinfeng Hu, Xing Xu, Fuqiang Li, Fenglu Han, 2024 / BMC Ecology and Evolution, Volume 24, Article number: 46 /PDFPDF

Tooth replacement of the filter-feeding pterosaur Forfexopterus and its implications for ecological Adaptation / Chang-Fu Zhou, Fengmin Fan, 2025 / Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2025) 97, (Suppl. 1): e20240673 /PDFPDF

Torosaurus Is Not Triceratops: Ontogeny in Chasmosaurine Ceratopsids as a Case Study in Dinosaur Taxonomy / Nicholas R. Longrich, Daniel J. Field, 2012 / PLoS ONE 7(2): e32623 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

Torsion and Bending in the Neck and Tail of Sauropod Dinosaurs and the Function of Cervical Ribs: Insights from Functional Morphology and Biomechanics / Holger Preuschoft, Nicole Klein, 2013 / PLoS ONE 8(10): e78574 /PDF mit Creative Commons LizenzPDF

Torvosaurus gurneyi n. sp., the Largest Terrestrial Predator from Europe, and a Proposed Terminology of the Maxilla Anatomy in Nonavian Theropods / Christophe Hendrickx, Octávio Mateus, 2014 / PLoS ONE 9(3): e88905 /PDFPDF

Trace fossils on dinosaur bones reveal ecosystem dynamics along the coast of eastern North America during the latest Cretaceous / Chase D. Brownstein​, 2018 / PeerJ 6:e4973 /PDFPDF

Tracking dinosaurs in BLM canyon country, Utah / Hunt-Foster et al., 2017 / Geology of the Intermountain West, [S.l.], v. 3, p. 67-100, jan. 2017. ISSN 2380-7601 /PDFPDF

Tracking Late Jurassic ornithopods in the Lusitanian Basin of Portugal: Ichnotaxonomic implications / Diego Castanera, Bruno C. Silva, Vanda F. Santos, Elisabete Malafaia, Matteo Belvedere, 2020 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65 (2), 2020: 399-412 /PDFPDF

Transformation of the pectoral girdle in pennaraptorans: critical steps in the formation of the modern avian shoulder joint / Qian Wu​, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Shiying Wang, Zhonghe Zhou, 2024 / PeerJ 12:e16960 /PDFPDF

Transitional evolutionary forms in chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaurs: evidence from the Campanian of New Mexico / Denver W. Fowler​, Elizabeth A. Freedman Fowler, 2020 / PeerJ 8:e9251 /PDFPDF

Two anurognathid pterosaur specimens from the Yanliao Biota and a new interpretation of anurognathid skulls / Tong et al., 2026 / Vertebrata PalAsiatica (advance online publication) /PDFPDF

Two Late Cretaceous sauropods reveal titanosaurian dispersal across South America / Hechenleitner et al., 2020 / Communications Biology, Volume 3, Article number: 622PDFPDF

Two new stegosaur specimens from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Montana, USA / D. Cary Woodruff, David Trexler, Susannah C.R. Maidment, 2019 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64 (3), 2019: 461-480 /PDF

Two turtles with soft tissue preservation from the platy limestones of Germany provide evidence for marine flipper adaptations in Late Jurassic thalassochelydians / Walter G. Joyce, Matthias Mäuser, Serjoscha W. Evers, 2021 / PLoS ONE 16(6): e0252355PDFPDF

Tyrannosaurs as long-lived species / Byung Mook Weon, 2016 / Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 19554 (2016) /PDFPDF

Tyrannosaurus rex: An endangered species / Thomas D. Carr, 2025 / Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(1):a16 /PDFPDF

Tyrant Dinosaur Evolution Tracks the Rise and Fall of Late Cretaceous Oceans / Loewen et al., 2013 / PLoS ONE 8(11): e79420 /PDFPDF