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Historical Biology
An International Journal of Paleobiology
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Feeding mechanisms of the sauropod dinosaurs Brachiosaurus, Camarasaurus, Diplodocus and Dicraeosaurus

Pages 137-152 | Published online: 10 Jan 2009

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John R. Price & John A. Whitlock. (2022) Dental histology of Diplodocus (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 42:1.
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John A. Whitlock. (2017) Was Diplodocus (Diplodocoidea, Sauropoda) capable of propalinal jaw motion?. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37:2.
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Daniela Schwarz, Jens C. D. Kosch, Guido Fritsch & Thomas Hildebrandt. (2015) Dentition and tooth replacement of Dicraeosaurus hansemanni (Dinosauria, Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35:6.
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JohnA. Whitlock, JeffreyA. Wilson & MatthewC. Lamanna. (2010) Description of a nearly complete juvenile skull of Diplodocus (Sauropoda: Diplodocoidea) from the Late Jurassic of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30:2, pages 442-457.
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Philip D. Mannion, Emanuel Tschopp & John A. Whitlock. (2021) Anatomy and systematics of the diplodocoid Amphicoelias altus supports high sauropod dinosaur diversity in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the USA . Royal Society Open Science 8:6, pages 210377.
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Mark B. Goodwin, Randall B. Irmis, Gregory P. Wilson, David G. DeMarJr.Jr., Keegan Melstrom, Cornelia Rasmussen, Balemwal Atnafu, Tadesse Alemu, Million Alemayehu & Samuel G. Chernet. (2019) The first confirmed sauropod dinosaur from Ethiopia discovered in the Upper Jurassic Mugher Mudstone. Journal of African Earth Sciences 159, pages 103571.
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Emanuel Tschopp, Octávio Mateus & Mark Norell. (2018) Complex Overlapping Joints between Facial Bones Allowing Limited Anterior Sliding Movements of the Snout in Diplodocid Sauropods. American Museum Novitates 3911:3911, pages 1-16.
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Leonardo Maiorino, Andrew A. Farke, Tassos Kotsakis, Pasquale Raia & Paolo Piras. (2018) Who is the most stressed? Morphological disparity and mechanical behavior of the feeding apparatus of ceratopsian dinosaurs (Ornithischia, Marginocephalia). Cretaceous Research 84, pages 483-500.
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Alexander Averianov, Stepan Ivantsov, Pavel Skutschas, Alexey Faingertz & Sergey Leshchinskiy. (2018) A new sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Ilek Formation, Western Siberia, Russia. Geobios 51:1, pages 1-14.
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David J. Button, Paul M. Barrett & Emily J. Rayfield. (2017) Craniodental functional evolution in sauropodomorph dinosaurs. Paleobiology 43:3, pages 435-462.
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Pedro Mocho, Rafael Royo-Torres, Elisabete Malafaia, Fernando Escaso & Francisco Ortega. (2017) Sauropod tooth morphotypes from the Upper Jurassic of the Lusitanian Basin (Portugal). Papers in Palaeontology 3:2, pages 259-295.
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Kayleigh Wiersma & P. Martin Sander. (2016) The dentition of a well-preserved specimen of Camarasaurus sp.: implications for function, tooth replacement, soft part reconstruction, and food intake. PalZ 91:1, pages 145-161.
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David J. Button, Paul M. Barrett & Emily J. Rayfield. (2016) Comparative cranial myology and biomechanics of Plateosaurus and Camarasaurus and evolution of the sauropod feeding apparatus . Palaeontology 59:6, pages 887-913.
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Rubén D. F. Martínez, Matthew C. Lamanna, Fernando E. Novas, Ryan C. Ridgely, Gabriel A. Casal, Javier E. Martínez, Javier R. Vita & Lawrence M. Witmer. (2016) A Basal Lithostrotian Titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) with a Complete Skull: Implications for the Evolution and Paleobiology of Titanosauria. PLOS ONE 11:4, pages e0151661.
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Karl T. Bates, Philip D. Mannion, Peter L. Falkingham, Stephen L. Brusatte, John R. Hutchinson, Alejandro Otero, William I. Sellers, Corwin Sullivan, Kent A. Stevens & Vivian Allen. (2016) Temporal and phylogenetic evolution of the sauropod dinosaur body plan. Royal Society Open Science 3:3, pages 150636.
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Romain Amiot, Xu Wang, Zhonghe Zhou, Xiaolin Wang, Christophe Lécuyer, Eric Buffetaut, Frédéric Fluteau, Zhongli Ding, Nao Kusuhashi, Jinyou Mo, Marc Philippe, Varavudh Suteethorn, Yuanqing Wang & Xing Xu. (2015) Environment and ecology of East Asian dinosaurs during the Early Cretaceous inferred from stable oxygen and carbon isotopes in apatite. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 98, pages 358-370.
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David J. Button, Emily J. Rayfield & Paul M. Barrett. (2014) Cranial biomechanics underpins high sauropod diversity in resource-poor environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281:1795, pages 20142114.
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Paul M. Barrett. (2014) Paleobiology of Herbivorous Dinosaurs. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 42:1, pages 207-230.
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Marcus Clauss, Patrick Steuer, Dennis W. H. Müller, Daryl Codron & Jürgen Hummel. (2013) Herbivory and Body Size: Allometries of Diet Quality and Gastrointestinal Physiology, and Implications for Herbivore Ecology and Dinosaur Gigantism. PLoS ONE 8:10, pages e68714.
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Matthew J. Cobley, Emily J. Rayfield & Paul M. Barrett. (2013) Inter-Vertebral Flexibility of the Ostrich Neck: Implications for Estimating Sauropod Neck Flexibility. PLoS ONE 8:8, pages e72187.
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Mark T. Young, Emily J. Rayfield, Casey M. Holliday, Lawrence M. Witmer, David J. Button, Paul Upchurch & Paul M. Barrett. (2012) Cranial biomechanics of Diplodocus (Dinosauria, Sauropoda): testing hypotheses of feeding behaviour in an extinct megaherbivore. Naturwissenschaften 99:8, pages 637-643.
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P. L. Falkingham, K. T. Bates & P. D. Mannion. (2012) Temporal and palaeoenvironmental distribution of manus- and pes-dominated sauropod trackways. Journal of the Geological Society 169:4, pages 365-370.
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John A. Whitlock. (2011) Inferences of Diplodocoid (Sauropoda: Dinosauria) Feeding Behavior from Snout Shape and Microwear Analyses. PLoS ONE 6:4, pages e18304.
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JOHN A. WHITLOCK. (2011) A phylogenetic analysis of Diplodocoidea (Saurischia: Sauropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161:4, pages 872-915.
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P. Martin Sander, Andreas Christian, Marcus Clauss, Regina Fechner, Carole T. Gee, Eva-Maria Griebeler, Hanns-Christian Gunga, Jürgen Hummel, Heinrich Mallison, Steven F. Perry, Holger Preuschoft, Oliver W. M. Rauhut, Kristian Remes, Thomas Tütken, Oliver Wings & Ulrich Witzel. (2011) Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism. Biological Reviews 86:1, pages 117-155.
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Fabien Knoll, Peter M. Galton & Raquel López-Antoñanzas. (2006) Paleoneurological evidence against a proboscis in the sauropod dinosaur Diplodocus. Geobios 39:2, pages 215-221.
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