Andrea Cau
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Wang X, Cau A, Guo B, Ma F, Qing G, Liu Y
Sci Rep
. 2022 Nov;
12(1):19965.
PMID: 36402874
Dromaeosaurids were bird-like dinosaurs with a predatory ecology known to forage on fish, mammals and other dinosaurs. We describe Daurlong wangi gen. et sp. nov., a dromaeosaurid from the Lower...
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Naish D, Cau A
PeerJ
. 2022 Jul;
10:e12727.
PMID: 35821895
Hutt et al., 2001 from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation (part of the Wealden Supergroup) of the Isle of Wight, southern England, is described in detail, compared with other theropods,...
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Cau A, Madzia D
PeerJ
. 2021 Dec;
9:e12640.
PMID: 34963824
is a small-bodied theropod dinosaur from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Nemegt Formation of southern Mongolia. The taxon is based on a single fragmentary specimen preserving only the distal part of...
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Barker C, Hone D, Naish D, Cau A, Lockwood J, Foster B, et al.
Sci Rep
. 2021 Sep;
11(1):19340.
PMID: 34588472
Spinosaurids are among the most distinctive and yet poorly-known of large-bodied theropod dinosaurs, a situation exacerbated by their mostly fragmentary fossil record and competing views regarding their palaeobiology. Here, we...
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Cau A, Beyrand V, Barsbold R, Tsogtbaatar K, Godefroit P
Sci Rep
. 2021 Jul;
11(1):14722.
PMID: 34282248
The furcula is a distinctive element of the pectoral skeleton in birds, which strengthens the shoulder region to withstand the rigor of flight. Although its origin among theropod dinosaurs is...
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Madzia D, Cau A
PeerJ
. 2020 Apr;
8:e8941.
PMID: 32322442
Observations of temporal overlap of niche occupation among Late Cretaceous marine amniotes suggest that the rise and diversification of mosasauroid squamates might have been influenced by competition with or disappearance...
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Cau A
PeerJ
. 2020 Mar;
8:e8672.
PMID: 32140312
The dromaeosaurid theropod is characterized by several unusual features absent in other paravians, part of which has been interpreted as diagnostic of a novel lineage adapted to a semiaquatic ecology....
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Cau A
PeerJ
. 2019 Sep;
7:e7364.
PMID: 31523492
is a thalattosuchian crocodylomorph from the Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation (RAVF, Middle Jurassic) of northern Italy. Erected from one partial specimen, is pivotal in reconstructing thalattosuchian evolution, being it the...
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Dal Sasso C, Maganuco S, Cau A
PeerJ
. 2018 Dec;
6:e5976.
PMID: 30588396
The homology of the tridactyl hand of birds is a still debated subject, with both paleontological and developmental evidence used in support of alternative identity patterns in the avian fingers....
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Cau A, Madzia D
PeerJ
. 2018 Jun;
6:e4868.
PMID: 29868277
is an enigmatic theropod dinosaur from the Baruungoyot Formation (?mid- to upper Campanian, Upper Cretaceous) of Mongolia. It was discovered in 1970, during the third Polish-Mongolian paleontological expedition to the...