top of page

Scientific papers of the research group since 2005

  1. Rauhut, O.W.M. 2005a. Osteology and relationships of a new theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Patagonia. Palaeontology 48 (1): 87-110.

  2. Rauhut, O.W.M. 2005b. Postcranial remains of “coelurosaurs“ (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Jurassic of Tanzania. Geological Magazine 142 (1): 97-107.

  3. Rauhut, O.W.M. und Fechner, R. 2005. Early development of the facial region in a non-avian theropod dinosaur. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 272: 1179-1183.

  4. Rauhut, O.W.M., Remes, K., Fechner, R., Cladera, G. und Puerta, P. 2005. Discovery of a short-necked sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period of Patagonia. Nature 435: 670-672.

  5. Rauhut, O.W.M. und Xu, X. 2005. The small theropod dinosaurs Tugulusaurus and Phaedrolosaurus from the Early Cretaceous of Xinjiang, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 (1): 107-118.

  6. Martin, T. und Rauhut, O.W.M. 2005. Mandible and dentition of Asfaltomylos patagonicus (Australosphenida, Mammalia) and the evolution of tribosphenic teeth. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 (2): 414-425.

  7. Rauhut, O.W.M. 2006. A brachiosaurid sauropod from the Late Jurassic Cañadón Calcáreo Formation of Chubut, Argentina. Fossil Record 9 (2): 226-237.

  8. Remes, K. 2006. Revision of the Tendaguru sauropod Tornieria africana (Fraas) and its relevance for sauropod paleobiogeography. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 (3): 651–669.

  9. Hone, D.W.E. 2007. Supertree and supermatrix resolution of the Archosauromorpha. Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geowissenschaften 32: 57-62.

  10. Hone, D.W.E. and  Benton, M.J.  2007. An evaluation of the phylogenetic relationships of the pterosaurs to the archosauromorph reptiles. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 5: 465-469.

  11. Hone, D.W.E. and Benton, M.J.  2007. Cope’s Rule in the Pterosauria and differing perceptions of Cope’s Rule at different taxonomic levels. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 1164-1170.

  12. Hone, D.W.E., Mahoney, S.H., Sparks, R.S.J. and Martin, K.T. 2007. Cladistic analysis applied to the classification of volcanoes. Bulletin of Volcanology 70: 203-220.

  13. Rauhut, O.W.M. 2007. A fragmentary theropod skull from the Middle Jurassic of Patagonia. Ameghiniana 44 (2): 479-483.

  14. Rauhut, O.W.M. 2007. The myth of the conservative character: braincase characters in theropod phylogenies. Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geowissenschaften, Beiheft 23:51-54.

  15. Remes, K. 2007. A second Gondwanan diplodocid dinosaur (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from the Upper Jurassic Tendaguru Beds of Tanzania, East Africa. Palaeontology 50 (3): 653–667.

  16. Rauhut, O.W.M. and López-Arbarello, A. 2008. Archosaur evolution during the Jurassic: a southern perspective. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 63 (4): 557-585.

  17. López-Arbarello, A., Rauhut, O.W.M. and Moser, K. 2008. Jurassic fishes of Gondwana. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 63 (4): 586-612;.

  18. Schwarz, D. and Fechner, R. 2008. The first dentary of Lisboasaurus (Crocodylomorpha, ?Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) of Uña, Cuenca Province, Spain. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28: 264-268.

  19. Volkheimer, W., Rauhut, O.W.M., Quattrocchio, M.E. and Martínez, M.A. 2008. Jurassic paleoclimates in Argentina, a review. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 63 (4): 547-554.

  20. Witzmann, F., Asbach, P., Remes, K., Hampe, O., Hilger, A. and Paulke, A. 2008. Vertebral pathology in an ornithopod dinosaur: a hemivertebra in Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki from the Jurassic of Tanzania. Anatomical Record 291: 1149-1155

  21. Erickson, G.M., Rauhut, O.W.M., Zhou, Z., Turner, A.H., Inouye, B.D., Hu, D., Norell, M.A., 2009. Was dinosaurian physiology inherited by birds? Reconciling slow growth in Archaeopteryx. PLoS One 4 (10): 1-9.

  22. Rauhut, O.W.M. and López-Arbarello, A. 2009. Considerations on the age of the Tiouaren Formation (Iullemmeden Basin, Niger, Africa): Implications for Gondwanan Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate faunas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 271: 259-267.

  23. Benson, R.B.J., Butler, R.J., Lindgren, J. and Smith, A.S. 2010. Mesozoic marine tetrapod diversity:  mass extinctions and temporal heterogeneity in geological megabiases affecting vertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277: 829-834.

  24. Brusatte, S.L., Nesbitt, S.J., Irmis, R.B., Butler, R.J., Benton, M.J. and Norell, M.A. 2010. The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs. Earth-Science Reviews 101: 68-100.

  25. Butler, R.J. 2010. The anatomy of the basal ornithischian dinosaur Eocursor parvus from the lower Elliot Formation (Late Triassic) of South Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 648-684.

  26. Butler, R.J., Barrett, P.M., Kenrick, P. and Penn, M.G. 2010. Testing coevolutionary hypotheses over geological timescales: interactions between Cretaceous dinosaurs and plants. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 100: 1-15.

  27. Butler, R.J., Galton, P.M., Porro, L.B., Chiappe, L.M., Henderson, D.M. and Erickson, G.M. 2010. Lower limits of ornithischian dinosaur body size inferred from a diminutive new Upper Jurassic heterodontosaurid from North America. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277: 375-381.

  28. Hone, D.W.E. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2010. Feeding behaviour and bone utilisation by theropod dinosaurs. Lethaia 43: 232-244.

  29. Hübner, T. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2010. A juvenile skull of Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki (Ornithischia: Iguanodontia) and implications for cranial ontogeny, phylogeny and taxonomy in ornithopod dinosaurs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 366-396.

  30. Jin, L., Chen, J., Zan, S., Butler, R.J. and Godefroit, P. 2010. Cranial anatomy of the small ornithischian dinosaur Changchunsaurus parvus from the Quantou Formation (Cretaceous:   Aptian–Cenomanian) of Jilin Province, northeastern China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30: 196-214.

  31. López-Arbarello, A., Rauhut, O.W.M. and Cerdeño, E. 2010. The Triassic fish fauna of the Cuyana Basin, western Argentina. Palaeontology 53: 249-276.

  32. Ősi, A., Butler, R.J. and Weishampel, D.B. 2010. A Late Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur from Europe with Asian affinities. Nature 465: 466-468.

  33. Rauhut, O.W.M., Milner, A.C. and Moore-Fay, S.C. 2010. Cranial osteology and phylogenetic position of the theropod dinosaur Proceratosaurus bradleyi (Woodward, 1910) from the Middle Jurassic of England. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158: 155-195.

  34. Barrett, P.M., Butler, R.J. and Nesbitt, S.J. 2011. The roles of herbivory and omnivory in early dinosaur evolution. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society, Edinburgh 101: 383–396.

  35. Barrett, P.M., Butler, R.J., Twitchett, R.J. and Hutt, S. 2011. New material of Valdosaurus  canaliculatus (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England. Special Papers in Palaeontology 86: 131–163.

  36. Benson, R.B.J. and Butler, R.J. 2011. Uncovering the diversification history of marine tetrapods: ecology influences the effect of geological sampling biases. In: Comparing the Geological and Fossil Records: Implications for Biodiversity Studies, McGowan, A.J. and Smith, A.B. (eds). Geological Society of London Special Publication 358: 191–207.

  37. Brusatte, S.L., Niedźwiedzki, G. and Butler, R.J. 2011. Footprints pull origin and diversification of dinosaur stem-lineage deep into Early Triassic. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278: 1107–1113.

  38. Butler, R.J., Benson, R.B.J., Carrano, M.T., Mannion, P.D. and Upchurch, P. 2011. Sea-level, dinosaur diversity, and sampling biases: investigating the ‘common cause’ hypothesis in the terrestrial realm. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278: 1165–1170.

  39. Butler, R.J., Brusatte, S.L., Reich, M., Nesbitt, S.J., Schoch, R.R. and Hornung, J.J. 2011. The sail-backed reptile Ctenosauriscus from the latest Early Triassic of Germany and the timing and biogeography of the early archosaur radiation. PLoS One 6: e25693.

  40. Butler, R.J., Jin, L., Chen, J. and Godefroit, P. 2011. The postcranial osteology and phylogenetic position of the small ornithischian dinosaur Changchunsaurus parvus from the Quantou Formation (Cretaceous: Aptian–Cenomanian) of Jilin Province, northwestern China. Palaeontology 54: 667–683.

  41. Carballido, J.L., Rauhut, O.W.M., Pol, D., and Salgado, L., 2011. Osteology and phylogenetic relationships of Tehuelchesaurus benitezii (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Jurassic of Patagonia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 605-662.

  42. Foth, C. 2011. The morphology of neoptile feathers: ancestral state reconstruction and its phylogenetic implications. Journal of Morphology 272: 387–403.

  43. Foth, C., Kalbe, J. and Kautz, R. 2011. First evidence of Elasmosauridae (Reptilia: Sauropterygia)  in an erratic boulder of Campanian age originating from southern Sweden or the adjacent Baltic Sea area. Zitteliana A 51: 285–290.

  44. Joshi, S.H., Prieto-Márquez, A. and Parker, W.C. 2011. A landmark-free method for quantifying biological shape variation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 104: 217–233.

  45. Norman, D.B., Crompton, A.W., Butler, R.J., Porro, L.B. and Charig, A.C. 2011. The Lower Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur Heterodontosaurus tucki Crompton and Charig, 1962: cranial anatomy, functional morphology, taxonomy and relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 182–276.

  46. Pol, D., Rauhut, O.W.M. and Becerra, M. 2011. A Middle Jurassic heterodontosaurid dinosaur from Patagonia and the evolution of heterodontosaurids. Naturwissenschaften 98: 369-379.

  47. Porro, L.B., Butler, R.J., Barrett, P.M., Moore-Fay, S. and Abel, R.L. 2011. New heterodontosaurid specimens from the Lower Jurassic of southern Africa and the early ornithischian dinosaur radiation. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society, Edinburgh 101: 351–366.

  48. Prieto-Márquez, A. 2011. A reappraisal of Barsboldia sicinskii (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Journal of Paleontology 85: 468–477.

  49. Prieto-Márquez, A. 2011. Cranial and appendicular ontogeny of Bactrosaurus johnsoni, a hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of northern China. Palaeontology 54: 773–792.

  50. Prieto-Márquez, A. 2011. Revised diagnoses of Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy, 1858 (the type genus and species of Hadrosauridae Cope, 1869) and Claosaurus agilis Marsh, 1872 (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Zootaxa 2765: 61–68.

  51. Prieto-Márquez, A. and Norell, M.A. 2011. Redescription of a nearly complete skull of Plateosaurus (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic of Trossingen (Germany). American Museum Novitates 3727:1–58.

  52. Rauhut, O.W.M. 2011. Theropod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania). Special Papers in Palaeontology 86: 195-239.

  53. Rauhut, O.W.M., Fechner, R., Remes, K. and Moser, K. 2011. How to get big in the Mesozoic: the evolution of the sauropodomorph body plan. In: Klein, N., Remes, K. and Sander, P.M. (eds), Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: understanding the life of giants. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis; pp. 119-149.

  54. Sander, P.M., Christian, A., Clauss, M., Fechner, R., Gee, C.T., Griebeler, E.-M., Gunga, H.-C., Hummel, J., Mallison, H., Perry, S.F., Preuschoft, H., Rauhut, O.W.M., Remes, K., Tütken, T., Wings, O., Witzel, U., 2011. Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism. Biological Reviews 86: 117-155.

  55. Upchurch, P., Mannion, P.D., Benson, R.B.J., Butler, R.J. and Carrano, M.T. 2011. Geological and anthropogenic controls on the sampling of the terrestrial fossil record: a case study from the  Dinosauria. In: Comparing the Geological and Fossil Records: Implications for Biodiversity Studies, McGowan, A.J. and Smith, A.B. (eds). Geological Society of London Special Publication 358: 209–240.

  56. Wang, X., Pan, R., Butler, R.J. and Barrett, P.M. 2011. The postcranial skeleton of the iguanodontian ornithopod Jinzhousaurus yangi from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society, Edinburgh 101: 135–159.

  57. Benson, R.B.J., Butler, R.J., Carrano, M.T. and O’Connor, P.M. 2012. Air-filled postcranial bones  in theropod dinosaurs: physiological implications and the ‘reptile’–bird transition. Biological Reviews 87: 168–193.

  58. Brusatte, S.L., Butler, R.J., Prieto-Márquez, A. and Norell, M.A. 2012. Dinosaur morphological diversity and the end Cretaceous extinction. Nature Communications 3: 804.

  59. Buchwitz, M., Foth, C., Kogan, I. and Voigt, S. 2012. On the use of osteoderm features for a cladistic approach on the internal relationships of the Chroniosuchia (Tetrapoda: Reptiliomorpha). Palaeontology 55: 623–640.

  60. Foth, C. 2012. On the identification of feather structures in stem-line representatives of birds: evidence from fossils and actuopalaeontology. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 86: 91–102.

  61. Foth, C., Brusatte, S.L. and Butler, R.J. 2012. Do different disparity proxies converge on a common signal? Insights from the cranial morphometrics and evolutionary history of Pterosauria (Diapsida: Archosauria). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 904–915.

  62. Gates, T.A., Prieto-Márquez, A. and Zanno, L.E. 2012. Mountain building triggered Late Cretaceous North American megaherbivore dinosaur radiation. PLoS ONE 7(8): e42135.

  63. Hai, X., Prieto-Márquez, A., Shu-Lin, H. and Ting-Xiang, Y. 2012. Re-evaluation and phylogenetic analysis of the hadrosaurine dinosaur Wulagasaurus dongi from the Maastrichtian of northeast China. Vertebrata Palasiatica 50: 160– 169.

  64. Han, F.L., Barrett, P.M., Butler, R.J. and Xu, X. 2012. Postcranial anatomy of Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32: 1370–1395.

  65. Pinheiro, F.L. and Schultz, C.L. 2012. An unusual pterosaur specimen (Pterydactyloidea, ?Azhdarchoidea) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation of Brazil, and the evolution of the pterydactyloid palate. PLoS ONE 7(11): e50088.

  66. Pol, D., and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2012. A Middle Jurassic abelisaurid from Patagonia and the early diversification of theropod dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 3170-3175.

  67. Prieto-Márquez, A. 2012. The skull and appendicular skeleton of Gryposaurus latidens, a saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the early Campanian (Cretaceous) of Montana, USA. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 49: 510–532.

  68. Prieto-Márquez, A., Bolortsetseg, M. and Horner, J.R. 2012. A diminutive deinonychosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Öösh (Övörkhangai, Mongolia). Alcheringa 36: 117–136.

  69. Prieto-Márquez, A., Chiappe, L. and Joshi, S.H. 2012. The lambeosaurine dinosaur Magnapaulia laticaudus from the Late Cretaceous of Baja California, northwestern Mexico. PLoS ONE 7(6): e38207.

  70. Prieto-Márquez, A. and Serrano Brañas, C.I. 2012. Latirhinus uitstlani, a ‘broad-nosed’ saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the late Campanian (Cretaceous) of northern Mexico. Historical Biology 24: 607–619.

  71. Ramírez-Velasco, A.A., Benammi, M., Prieto-Márquez, A., Alvarado Ortega, J. and Hernández-Rivera, R. 2012. Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, a new hadrosauroid dinosaur (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Santonian (Late Cretaceous) of Michoacán, Mexico. Canadian Journal of Earth Science 49: 379–395.

  72. Rauhut, O.W.M. 2012. A reappraisal of a putative record of abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 123: 779-786.

  73. Rauhut, O.W.M., Foth, C., Tischlinger, H., and Norell, M. A. 2012. Exceptionally preserved juvenile megalosauroid theropod dinosaur with filamentous integument from the Late Jurassic of Germany. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109: 11746-11751.

  74. Rauhut, O.W.M., Heyng, A.M., López-Arbarello, A. and Hecker, A. 2012. A new rhynchocephalian from the Late Jurassic of Germany with a dentition that is unique amongst tetrapods. PLoS One 7(10): e46839.

  75. Xing, H., Prieto-Márquez, A., Hai, S.L. and Yu, T.X. 2012. Re-evaluation and phylogenetic analysis of the hadrosaurine dinosaur Wulagasaurus dongi from the Maastrichtian of northeast China. Vertebrata Palasiatica 50: 160–169.

  76. Argañaraz, E. Grellet-Tinner, G., Fiorelli, L.E., Krause, M. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2013. Huevos de sauropodos del Aptiano-Albiano, Formación Cerro Barcino (Patagonia, Argentina): un enigma paleoambiental y paleobiológico. Ameghiniana 50 (1): 33-50.

  77. Butler, R.J., Yates, A.M., Rauhut, O.W.M. and Foth, C. 2013. A pathological tail in a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from South Africa: evidence of traumatic amputation? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 (1): 224-228.

  78. Foth, C. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2013. Macroevolutionary and morphofunctional patterns in theropod skulls: a morphometric approach. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58 (1): 1-16.

  79. Foth, C. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2013. The good, the bad, and the ugly: the influence of skull reconstructions and intraspecific variability in studies of cranial morphometrics in theropods and basal saurischians. PLoS One 8 (8): e72007.

  80. Holwerda, F.M., Beatty, B.L. and Schulp, A.S. 2013. Dental macro- and microwear in Carinodens belgicus, a small mosasaur from the type Maastrichtian. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 92: 267-274.

  81. Lautenschlager, S. and Hübner, T.R. 2013. Ontogenetic trajectories in the ornithischian endocranium. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26: 2044-2050.

  82. López-Arbarello, A., Sferco, E. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2013. New coccolepid genus (Chondrostei) from the continental Jurassic of Patagonia. Palaeontologica Electronica 16 (1): 1-23.

  83. Pol, D., Rauhut, O.W.M., Lecuona, A., Leardi, J.M., Xu, X. and Clark, J.M. 2013. A new fossil from the Jurassic of Patagonia reveals the early basicranial evolution and the origins of Crocodyliformes. Biological Reviews 88: 862-872.

  84. Prieto-Márquez, A. 2013. Skeletal morphology of Kritosaurus navajovius (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of the North American Southwest, with an evaluation of the phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of Kritosaurini. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 12 (2): 133-175.

  85. Prieto-Márquez, A., Dalla Vecchia, F.M., Galobart, A. and Gaete, R. 2013. Diversity, relationships, and biogeography of the lambeosaurine dinosaurs from the European Archipelago, with description of the new aralosaurin Canardia garonnensis. PLoS ONE 8 (7): e69835.

  86. Prieto-Márquez, A. and Wagner, J.R. 2013. Saurolophus morrisi, a new species of hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of the Pacific coast of North America. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58 (2): 255-268.

  87. Prieto-Márquez, A. and Wagner, J.R. 2013. The ‘unicorn’ dinosaur that wasn’t: a new reconstruction of the crest of Tsintaosaurus and the early evolution of the lambeosaurine crest and rostrum. PLoS One 8 (11): e82268.

  88. Becerra, M., Pol, D., Marsicano, C. A. and Rauhut, O. W. M. 2014. The dentition of Manidens condorensis (Ornithischia; Heterodontosauridae) from the Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation of Patagonia: morphology, heterodonty, and the use of statistical methods for identifying isolated teeth. Historical Biology 26 (4): 480-492.

  89. Butler, R. J., Rauhut, O. W. M., Stocker, M. R. and Bronowicz, R. 2014. Redescription of the phytosaurs Paleorhinus (“Francosuchus”) angustifrons and Ebrachosuchus neukami from Germany, with implications for Late Triassic biochronology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170: 155-208.

  90. Foth, C. 2014. Comment on the absence of ossified sternal elements in basal paravian dinosaurs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111: E5334.

  91. Foth, C., Tischlinger, H. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2014. New specimen of Archaeopteryx provides insights into the evolution of pennaceous feathers. Nature 511: 79-82.

  92. Langer, M.C., Rincón, A.D., Ramezani, J., Solórzano, A. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2014. New dinosaur (Theropoda, stem-Averostra) from the earliest Jurassic of the La Quinta Formation, Venezuelan Andes. Royal Society Open Science 1:140184.

  93. Rauhut, O.W.M. 2014. New observations on the skull of Archaeopteryx. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 88: 211-221.

  94. Ribeiro, V., Mateus, O., Holwerda, F., Araújo, R., and Castanhinha, R. 2014.  Two new theropod egg sites from the Late Jurassic Lourinhã Formation, Portugal. Historical Biology 26(2): 206-217.

  95. Böhmer, C., Rauhut, O.W.M. and Wörheide, G. 2015. New insights into the vertebral Hox-code of archosaurs. Evolution and Development 17 (5): 258-269.

  96. Böhmer, C., Rauhut, O.W.M. and Wörheide, G. 2015. Correlation between Hox code and vertebral morphology in archosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 282: 20150077.

  97. Evers, S.W., Rauhut, O.W.M., Milner, A.C., McFeeters, B. and Allain, R. 2015. A reappraisal of the morphology and systematic position of the theropod dinosaur Sigilmassasaurus from the “middle” Cretaceous of Morocco. PeerJ 3:e1323.

  98. Ezcurra, M. D, Desojo, J. B. and Rauhut, O. W. M. 2015. Redescription and phylogenetic relationships of the proterochampsian Rhadinosuchus gracilis (Diapsida: Archosauriformes) from the early Late Triassic of southern Brazil. Ameghiniana 52 (4): 391-417.

  99. Foth, C., Bona, P. and Desojo, J.B. 2013. Intraspecific variation in the skull morphology of the black caiman Melanosuchus niger (Alligatoridae, Caimaninae). Acta Zoologica 96: 1-13.

  100. Foth, C., Evers, S., Pabst, B., Mateus, O., Flisch, A., Patthey, M. and Rauhut, O. W. M. 2015. New insights into the lifestyle of Allosaurus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) based on another specimen with multiple pathologies. PeerJ 3: e940.

  101. Holwerda, F. M., Pol, D., Rauhut, O. W. M. 2015. Using dental enamel wrinkling to define sauropod tooth morphotypes from the Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Patagonia, Argentina. PLoS One 10 (2): e0118100.

  102. Lautenschlager, S. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2015. A revision of Rauisuchus tiradentes (Archosauria: Rauisuchia) from the Late Triassic (Carnian) Santa Maria Formation of Brazil and its implications for rauisuchian phylogeny. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 173: 55-91.

  103. Rauhut, O.W.M., Carballido, J.L. and Pol, D. 2015. A diplodocid sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Cañadón Calcáreo Formation of Chubut, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 (5): e982798.

  104. Becerra, M.G., Pol, D., Rauhut, O.W.M. and Cerda, I.A. 2016. New remains of heterodontosaurids from the Cañadón Asfalto Formation: cursoriality and the functional importance of the pes in small heterodontosaurids. Journal of Paleontology 90: 555-577.

  105. Castanera, D., Díaz-Martínez, I., Moreno-Azanza, M., Canudo, J.I. & Gasca, J.M. 2016. An overview of the Lower Cretaceous dinosaur tracksites from the Mirambel Formation in the Iberian Range (NE Spain). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 71: 65-74.

  106. Castanera, D., Piñuela, L. and García-Ramos, J. C. 2016. Grallator theropod tracks from the Late Jurassic of Asturias (Spain): ichnotaxonomic  implications. Spanish Journal of Palaeontology 31 (2): 283-296.

  107. Cordoniú, L., Paulina Carabajal, A., Pol, D., Unwin, D.M. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2016. A Jurassic pterosaur from Patagonia and the origin of the pterodactyloid neurocranium. PeerJ 4: e2311.

  108. Rauhut, O.W.M. and Carrano. M.T. 2016. The theropod dinosaur Elaphrosaurus bambergi Janensch, 1920, from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178, 546–610.

  109. Rauhut, O.W.M., Hübner, T.R. and Lanser, K.-P. 2016. A new megalosaurid theropod dinosaur from the late Middle Jurassic (Callovian) of north-western Germany: Implications for theropod evolution and faunal turnover in the Jurassic. Palaeontologia electronica 19.2.26A: 1-65.

  110. Rauhut, O.W.M. and López-Arbarello, A. 2016. Zur Taxonomie der Brückenechse aus dem oberen Jura von Schamhaupten. Archaeopteryx 33: 1-11.

  111. Razzolini, N.L., Oms, O., Castanera, D., Vila, B., Faria dos Santos, V. and Galobart, Á. 2016. Ichnological evidence of megalosaurid dinosaurs crossing Middle Jurassic tidal flats. Scientific Reports 6: 31494.

  112. Bronzati, M. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2017. Braincase redescription of Efraasia minor (Huene, 1908) (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic of Germany, with comments on the evolution of the sauropodomorph braincase. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182: 173-224.

  113. Bronzati, M., Rauhut, O.W.M., Bittencourt, J.S. and Langer, M.C. 2017. Endocast of the Late Triassic (Carnian) dinosaur Saturnalia tupiniquim: implications for the evolution of neurological tissues in Sauropodomorpha. Scientific Reports 7: 11931.

  114. Carballido, J.L, Holwerda, F.M., Pol, D. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2017. An Early Jurassic sauropod tooth from Patagonia (Cañadón Asfalto Formation): implications for sauropod diversity. Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 17 (2): 50–57.

  115. Foth, C. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2017. Re-evaluation of the Haarlem Archaeopteryx and the radiation of maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17: 236.

  116. Gasca, J.M., Moreno-Azanza, M., Bádenas, B., Díaz-Martínez, I., Castanera, D., Canudo, J.I. and Aurell, M. 2017. Integrated overview of the vertebrate fossil record of the Ladruñán anticline (Spain): Evidence of a Barremian alluvial-lacustrine system in NE Iberia frequented by dinosaurs. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 472: 192-202.

  117. Langer, M.C, Ezcurra, M.D., Rauhut, O.W.M., Benton, M.J., Knoll, F., McPhee, B.W., Novas, F.E., Pol, D. and Brusatte, S.L. 2017. Scientific communications arising: Untangling the dinosaur family tree. Nature 551: E1-E3.

  118. Rauhut, O.W.M., López-Arbarello, A., Röper, M. and Rothgaenger, M. 2017. Vertebrate fossils from the Kimmeridgian of Brunn: the oldest fauna from the Solnhofen Archipelago (Late Jurassic, Bavaria, Germany). Zitteliana 89: 305-329.

  119. Rauhut, O.W.M. and Pol, D. 2017. A theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Cañadón Calcáreo Formation of Chubut, Patagonia, and the evolution of the theropod tarsus. Ameghiniana.54: 506-538.

  120. Bronzati, M., Benson, R.B.J. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2018. Rapid transformation in the braincase of sauropod dinosaurs: implications for the early evolution of gigantism. Palaeontology: 61: 289-302.

  121. Castanera, D., Belvedere, M., Marty, D., Paratte, G., Lapaire-Cattin, M., Lovis, C. and Meyer, C.A. 2018. A walk in the maze: variation in Late Jurassic tridactyl dinosaur tracks from the Swiss Jura
    Mountains (NW Switzerland). PeerJ 6: e4579.

  122. Holwerda, F.M., Díez Díaz, V., Blanco, A., Montie, R. and Reumer, J.W.F. 2018. Late Cretaceous sauropod tooth morphotypes may provide supporting evidence for faunal connections between North Africa and Southern Europe. PeerJ 6: e5925

  123. Holwerda, F.M. and Pol, D. 2018. Phylogenetic analysis of Gondwanan basal eusauropods from the Early-Middle Jurassic of Patagonia, Argentina. Spanish Journal of Palaeontology 33 (2): 289-298.

  124. Rauhut, O.W.M., Foth, C. and Tischlinger, H. 2018. The oldest Archaeopteryx (Theropoda: Avialiae): a new specimen from the Kimmeridgian/Tithonian boundary of Schamhaupten, Bavaria. PeerJ. 6: e4191.

  125. Rauhut, O.W.M., Piñuela, L., Castanera, D., García-Ramos, J.-C. and Sánchez Cela, I. 2018. The largest European theropod dinosaurs: Remains of a gigantic megalosaurid and giant theropod tracks from the Kimmeridgian of Asturias, Spain. PeerJ 6: e4963.

  126. Becerra, M.G., Pol, D., Rössner, G.E. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2018. Heterodonty and double occlusion in Manidens condorensis: a unique adaptation in an Early Jurassic Ornithischia improving masticatory efficiency. The Science of Nature 105:41

  127. Beyrand, V., Voeten, D.F.A.E., Bures, S., Fernandez, V., Janacek, J., Jirak, D., Rauhut, O.W.M. and Tafforeau, P. 2019. Multiphase progenetic development shaped the brain of flying archosaurs. Scientific Reports 9: 10807

  128. Blanco, A. 2019. Igdabatis marmii sp. nov. (Myliobatiformes) from the lower Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of north-eastern Spain: an Ibero-Armorican origin for a Gondwanan batoid. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17: 865-879.

  129. Bronzati, M., Langer, M.C. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2019. Braincase anatomy of the early sauropodomorph Saturnalia tupiniquim (Late Triassic, Brazil). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: e1551973

  130. Georgalis, G.L., Villa, A., Ivanov, M., Vasilyan, D. and Delfino, M. 2019. Fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Neogene locality of Maramena (Greece), the most diverse European herpetofauna at the Miocene/Pliocene transition boundary. Palaeontologia electronica 22.3.68: 1-99.

  131. Macaluso, L., Carnevale, G., Casu, R., Pietrocola, D., Villa, A. and Delfino, M. 2019. Structural and environmental constraints on reduction of paired appendages among vertebrates. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 128: 473-485.

  132. Moncunill-Solé, B., Isidro, A., Blanco, A., Angelone, C., Rössner, G.E. and Jordana, X. 2019. The most ancient evidence of a diseased lagomorph: Infectious paleopathology in a tibiofibular bone (Middle Miocene, Germany). Comptes Rendus Palevol 18: 1011-1023.

  133. Rauhut, O.W.M. and Pol, D. 2019. Probable basal allosauroid from the early Middle Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation of Argentina highlights phylogenetic uncertainty in tetanuran theropod dinosaurs. Scientific Reports 9: 18826

  134. Rauhut, O.W.M., Tischlinger, H. and Foth, C. 2019. A non-archaeopterygid avialan theropod from the Late Jurassic of southern Germany. eLife 8: e43789

  135. Blanco, A., Puértolas-Pascual, E., Marmi, J., Moncunill-Solé, B., Llácer, S. and Rössner, G.E. 2020. Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) crocodyliforms from north-eastern Iberia: a first attempt to explain the crocodyliform diversity based on tooth qualitative traits. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189: 584-617.

  136. Desojo, J.B., von Baczko, M.B. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2020. Anatomy, taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of Prestosuchus chiniquensis (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the original collection of von Huene, Middle-Late Triassic of southern Brazil. Palaeontologica electronica 23(1): a04

  137. Evers, S.W., Foth, C. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2020. Notes on the cheek region of the Late Jurassic theropod dinosaur Allosaurus. PeerJ 8: e8493

  138. Foth, C., Haug, C., Haug, J.T, Tischlinger, H. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2020. Two of a feather: A comparison of the preserved integument in the juvenile theropod dinosaurs Sciurumimus and Juravenator from the Kimmeridgian Torleite Formation of southern Germany. In: Foth, C. and Rauhut, O.W.M. (eds), The origin and evolution of feathers. From their origin to the present. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg; 79-101

  139. Heckeberg, N.S. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2020. Histology of spinosaurid dinosaur teeth from the Albian-Cenomanian of Morocco: implications for tooth replacement and ecology. Palaeontologia electronica 23(3): a48

  140. Loréal, E., Villa, A., Georgalis, G. and Delfino, M. 2020. Amphibians and reptiles from the late Miocene and early Pliocene of the Ptolemais area (Western Macedonia, Greece). Annales de Paléontologie 106: 102407.

  141. Racca, L., Villa, A., Wencker, L.C.M., Camaiti, M., Blain, H.-A. and Delfino, M. 2020. Skull osteology and osteological phylogeny of the Western whip snake Hierophis viridiflavus (Squamata, Colubridae). Journal of Morphology 281(6): 1-26.

  142. Rauhut, O.W.M. and Foth, C. 2020. The origin of birds: current consensus, controversy, and the occurrence of feathers. In: Foth, C. and Rauhut, O.W.M. (eds), The origin and evolution of feathers. From their origin to the present. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg; pp. 27-45

  143. Rauhut, O.W.M., Holwerda, F.M. and Furrer, H. 2020. A derived sauropodiform dinosaur and other sauropodomorph material from the Late Triassic of Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 113 (8): 1-54

  144. Rauhut, O.W.M., Schwermann, A., Hübner, T.R. and Lanser, K.-P. 2020. The oldest record of the genus Torvosaurus (Theropoda: Megalosauridae), from the Callovian Ornatenton Formation of north-western Germany. Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen 93: 1-13; 7 Figs.

  145. Schade, M., Rauhut, O.W.M. and Evers, S.W. 2020. Neuroanatomy of the spinosaurid Irritator challengeri (Dinosauria: Theropoda) indicates potential adaptations for piscivory. Scientific Reports 10: 9259

  146. Sellés, A.G., Blanco, A., Vila, B., Marmi, J., López-Soriano, F.J., Llácer, S., Frigola, J., Canals, M. and Galobart, A. 2020. A small Cretaceous crocodyliform in a dinosaur nesting ground and the origin of sebecids. Scientific Reports 10: 15293.

  147. Villa, A., Bacciotti, M., Sala, B. and Delfino, M. 2020. Early Biharian amphibians and reptiles from Monte La Mesa (Verona, northeastern Italy): a typical herpetological assemblage from the Early Pleistocene of Veneto. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 59: 85-104.

  148. Villa, A., Georgalis, G.L. and Delfino, M. 2020. The latest Early Pleistocene amphibians and reptiles from Kaiafas (Greece) and the first record of fossil Ophiomorus (Squamata, Scincidae). Geobios doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2020.06.010

  149. Cuesta, E., Vidal, D., Ortega, F., Shibata, M. and Sanz, J.L. 2021. Pelecanimimus (Theropoda: Ornithomimosauria) postcranial anatomy and the evolution of the specialized manus in Ornithomimosaurs and sternum in maniraptoriforms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab013

  150. Fernandes, A.E., Mateus, O., Bauluz, B., Coimbra, R., Ezquerre, L., Núñez-Lahuerta, C., Suteu, C. and Moreno-Azanza, M, 2021. The Paimogo dinosaur egg clutch revisited: using one of Portugal's most notable fossils to exhibit the scientific method. Geoheritage 13: 66.

  151. Holwerda, F.M, Rauhut, O.W.M. and Pol, D. 2021. Osteological revision of the holotype of the Middle Jurassic sauropod dinosaur Patagosaurus fariasi (Sauropoda: Cetiosauridae) Bonaparte, 1979. Geodiversitas 43 (16): 575-643

  152. Pol, D., Carballido, J.L., Rougier, G.W.,  Rauhut, O.W.M., Sterli, J. and Gómez, K. 2021. Vertebrados tetrápodos mesozoicos de la cuenca Cañadón Asfalto.  In: Giacosa, R.E. (Ed.): Geología y Recursos Naturales de la Provincia del Chubut. Relatorio del XXI Congreso Geológico Argentino, Puerto Madryn, Chubut: 140-165

  153. Rauhut, O.W.M., Carballido, J.L. and Pol, D. 2021. First osteological record of a stegosaur (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Jurassic of South America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40(6): e1862133.

  154. Rauhut, O.W.M. and Pol, D. 2021. New theropod remains from the Late Jurassic Cañadón Calcáreo Formation of Chubut, Argentina. South American Journal of Earth Sciences 111: 103434

  155. Villa, A., Montie, R., Röper, M, Rothgaenger, M. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2021. Sphenofontis velserae gen. et sp. nov., a new rhynchocephalian from the Late Jurassic of Brunn (Solnhofen Archipelago, southern Germany). PeerJ 9: e11363.

  156. Fernandes, A.E., Mateus, O., Andres, B., Polcyn, M.J., Schulp, A.S., Gonçalves, A.O. and Jacobs, L.L. 2022. Pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Angola. Diversity 14: 741. DOI: 10.3390/d14090741

  157. Pol, D., Gomez, K., Holwerda, F.M., Rauhut, O.W.M. and Carballido, J.L. 2022. Early sauropods in the Early Jurassic of South America and the radiation of Eusauropoda. In: Otero, A., Carballido, J.L. and Pol, D. (eds.): South American sauropodomorph dinosaurs. Record, diversity and evolution. Springer Verlag, Berlin; 131-163; 7 Figs. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95959-3_4

  158. Villa, A. and Reichenbacher, B. 2022. Reinterpretation of girdled lizard remains from Switzerland documents the first occurrence of the lacertid Janosikia outside of Germany. PalZ 96: 129-134.

  159. Becerra, M.G., Pol, D., Porro, L.B., Paulina-Carabajal, A. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2023. Craniomandibular osteology of Manidens condorensis (Ornithischia: Heterodontosauridae) from the late Early Jurassic of Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2181087.

  160. Windholz, G.J., Carballido, J.L., Coria, R.A., Zurriaguz, V.L. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2023. How pneumatic were the presacral vertebrae of dicraeosaurid (Sauropoda: Diplodocoidea) dinosaurs? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 138 (1): 103–120; 11 Figs. doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blac131

  161. Windholz, G.J., Cerda, I.A., Carballido, J.L. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2023. Palaeobiological inferences for the South American dicraeosaurid Brachytrachelopan mesai (Dinosauria; Sauropoda) based on bone histology of the holotype. Historical Biology 35 (10): 1871-1880. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2022.2124373

  162. Schade, M., Rauhut, O.W.M., Foth, C., Moleman, O. and Evers, S.W. 2023. A reappraisal of the cranial and mandibular osteology of the spinosaurid Irritator challengeri (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Palaeontologia electronica 26(2): a 17; 41 Figs. doi.org/10.26879/1242

  163. Fernandes, A.E., Beccari, V., Kellner, A.W.A. and Mateus, O. 2023. A new gnathosaurine (Pterosauria, Archaeopterodactyloidea) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal. PeerJ 11:e16048 DOI 10.7717/peerj.16048

  164. Puértoclas-Pascual, E., Aurell, M., Bermúdez-Rochas, D.D., Canudo, J.I., Fernandes, A.E., Galobart, A., Moreno-Azanza, M., Pérez-García, A. and Castanera, D. 2023. A new vertebrate assemblage from the Matute Formation of the Cameros Basin (Ágreda, Spain): implications for the diversity during the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary. Journal of Iberian Geology https://doi.org/10.1007/s41513-023-00220-y

  165. Kirmse, J.P.S., Benton, M.J., Hildebrandt, C., Langer, M.C. and Marsola, J.C.A. 2023. A Coelophysoidea (Dinosauria, Theropoda) femur from the Tytherington fissures (Rhaetian, Late Triassic), Bristol, UK. Proceedings of the Geologist' Association 134: 562-572. doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2023.07.005

bottom of page