Femora from an exceptionally large population of coeval ornithomimosaurs yield evidence of sexual dimorphism in extinct theropod dinosaurs

Autor: Romain Pintore, Raphaël Cornette, Alexandra Houssaye, Ronan Allain

Publikováno v: eLife, Vol 12 (2023)

Sexual dimorphism is challenging to detect among fossils due to a lack of statistical representativeness. The Angeac-Charente Lagerstätte (France) represents a remarkable ‘snapshot’ from a Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) ecosystem and offers a uni

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Convergent evolution of jaws between spinosaurid dinosaurs and pike conger eels

Autor: Romain Vullo, Ronan Allain, Lionel Cavin

Publikováno v: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Vol 61, Iss 4, Pp 825-828 (2016)

Spinosaurs represent a group of peculiar theropod dinosaurs that have often been described as “crocodile-mimic”, predominantly fish-eating predators, and recently claimed to have been semi-aquatic animals. Here we report a suite of craniodental

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New material and revision of Melanorosaurus thabanensis, a basal sauropodomorph from the Upper Triassic of Lesotho

Autor: Claire Peyre de Fabrègues, Ronan Allain

Publikováno v: PeerJ, Vol 4, p e1639 (2016)

Melanorosaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph that currently includes two species from Southern Africa. In this paper, we redescribe the holotype femur of Melanorosaurus thabanensis from the Elliot Formation of Lesotho, as well as associated rema

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An African Radiation of ‘Dryolestoidea’ (Donodontidae, Cladotheria) and its Significance for Mammalian Evolution

Autor: Maxime Lasseron, Thomas Martin, Ronan Allain, Hamid Haddoumi, Nour-Eddine Jalil, Samir Zouhri, Emmanuel Gheerbrant

Publikováno v: Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 29:733-761

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-022-09613-9

Paléobiodiversité des vertébrés du Lagerstätte du Crétacé inférieur (Berriasien) d’Angeac-Charente (sud-ouest de la France), implications pour le renouvellement faunique continental à la limite J/K

Autor: Ronan Allain, Romain Vullo, Lee Rozada, Jérémy Anquetin, Renaud Bourgeais, Jean Goedert, Maxime Lasseron, Jeremy E. Martin, Adán Pérez-García, Claire Peyre De Fabrègues, Rafael Royo-Torres, Dominique Augier, Gilles Bailly, Lilian Cazes, Yohan Despres, Auréliane Gailliègue, Bernard Gomez, Florent Goussard, Thierry Lenglet, Renaud Vacant, Mazan, Jean-François Tournepiche

Publikováno v: Geodiversitas
Geodiversitas, 2022, 44 (25), pp.683-752. ⟨10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a25⟩
Geodiversitas, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris, 2022, 44 (25), pp.683-752. ⟨10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a25⟩

International audience; This contribution describes the continental micro- and macrovertebrate fauna of Angeac-Charente (Berriasian, Early Cretaceous). The rich and diversified fauna includes at least 38 different vertebrate taxa from all major clade

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https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a25