Aspects of the history, anatomy, taxonomy and palaeobiology of sauropod dinosaurs
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8 Introduction 9 Bibliography for introduction 14 Chapter 1. Sauropod dinosaur research: a historical review 18–73 Chapter 2. A re-evaluation of Brachiosaurus altithorax Riggs 1903 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) and its generic separation from Giraffatitan brancai (Janensch 1914) 75–141 Chapter 3. An unusual new neosauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Beds Group of East Sussex, England 143–188 Chapter 4. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, U.S.A. 190–238 Chapter 5. Vertebral morphology and the evolution of long necks in sauropod dinosaurs 240–280
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Sauropod dinosaur research: a historical review Geological Society, London, Special Publications
In the 169 years since Owen named a tooth as Cardiodon, the study of sauropod dinosaurs has gone through several distinct periods. In the early years, a sequence of descriptions of isolated skeletal elements gave rise to a gradually emerging understanding of the animals that would later be known as sauropods. The second phase began in 1871 with Phillips’s description of Cetiosaurus oxoniensis, ...
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