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Machine learning confirms new records of maniraptoran theropods in Middle Jurassic UK microvertebrate faunas
/ Simon Wills, Charlie J. Underwood, Paul M. Barrett, 2023 / Papers in Palaeontology, Volume9, Issue 2, March/April 2023, e1487 / https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1487 /
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Macroevolutionary patterns in the pelvis, stylopodium and zeugopodium of megalosauroid theropod dinosaurs and their importance for locomotor function / Mauro B. S. Lacerda, Jonathas S. Bittencourt, John R. Hutchinson, 2023 / R. Soc. Open Sci. 10: 230481. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230481 /PDF
Macrofossil evidence for a rapid and severe Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction in Antarctica/ Witts et al., 2016 / Nature Communications 7:11738, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11738 /PDF
Major bonebeds in mudrocks of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), northern Colorado Plateau of Utah and Colorado/ John R. Foster, Julia B. McHugh, Joseph E. Peterson, Michael F. Leschin, 2016 / Geology of the Intermountain West, [S.l.], v. 3, p. 33-66, dec. 2016. ISSN 2380-7601 /PDF
Males Resemble Females: Re-Evaluating Sexual Dimorphism in Protoceratops andrewsi (Neoceratopsia, Protoceratopsidae) / Leonardo Maiorino, Andrew A. Farke, Tassos Kotsakis, Paolo Piras, 2015 / PLoS ONE 10(5): e0126464. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126464 /PDF
Mandibular kinesis in Hesperornis
/ Larry D. Martin, Virginia L. Naples, 2008 / ORYCTOS, Vol. 7
Maraapunisaurus fragillimus, N.G. (formerly Amphicoelias fragillimus), a basal Rebbachisaurid from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Colorado / Kenneth Carpenter, 2018 / Geology of the Intermountain West, Volume 5, pp 227-244
March of the Titans: The Locomotor Capabilities of Sauropod Dinosaurs / William Irvin Sellers, Lee Margetts, Rodolfo Aníbal Coria, Phillip Lars Manning, 2013 / PLoS ONE 8(10): e78733. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078733 /PDF
Martharaptor greenriverensis, a New Theropod Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah/ Phil Senter, James I. Kirkland, Donald D. DeBlieux, 2012 / PLoS ONE 7(8): e43911. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043911 /PDF
Mass extinctions drove increased global faunal cosmopolitanism on the supercontinent Pangaea / David J. Button, Graeme T. Lloyd, Martín D. Ezcurra, Richard J. Butler, 2017 / Nature Communications 8, 733 (2017) doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00827-7 / PDF
Massive perturbations to atmospheric sulfur in the aftermath of the Chicxulub impact / Junium et al., 2022 / PNAS Vol. 119, No. 14 /PDF
Mechanisms of soft tissue and protein preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex/ Boatman et al., 2019 / Scientific Reports, Volume 9, Article number: 15678PDF
Megaraptor namunhuaiquii, gen. et sp. nov., a large-clawed, Late Cretaceous theropod from Patagonia / Fernando E Novas, 1998 / Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(1):4-9. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.1998.10011030
Mesozoic Birds of China/ Lianhai Hou, 1997 / Phoenix Valley Provincial Aviary, Taiwan
Modeling Dragons: Using linked mechanistic physiological and microclimate models to explore environmental, physiological, and morphological constraints on the early evolution of dinosaurs/ Lovelace et al., 2020 / PLoS ONE 15(5): e0223872. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223872PDF
Modified skulls but conservative brains? The palaeoneurology and endocranial anatomy of baryonychine dinosaurs (Theropoda: Spinosauridae) / Barker et al., 2023 / Journal of Anatomy, 2023;00:1–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13837 /PDF
Modelling take-off moment arms in an ornithocheiraean pterosaur / Griffin et al., 2024 / PeerJ 12:e17678 /PDF
Molecular phyloecology suggests a trophic shift concurrent with the evolution of the first birds / Yonghua Wu, 2021 / Communications Biology, Volume 4, Article number: 547 (2021)PDF
Morfología caudal de Pterodaustro guinazui (Pterosauria: Ctenochasmatidae) del Cretácico de Argentina / Laura S. Codorniú, 2005 / Ameghiniana Vol.42, Nr..2, pp. 505-509 /PDF
Morphofunctional Analysis of the Quadrate of Spinosauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and the Presence of Spinosaurus and a Second Spinosaurine Taxon in the Cenomanian of North Africa / Christophe Hendrickx, Octávio Mateus, Eric Buffetaut, 2016 / PLoS ONE 11(1): e0144695. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144695 /PDF
Morphological and Geochemical Evidence of Eumelanin Preservation in the Feathers of the Early Cretaceous Bird, Gansus yumenensis / Barden et al., 2011 / PLoS ONE 6(10): e25494. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025494 /PDF
Morphological innovation and the evolution of hadrosaurid dinosaurs/ Thomas L. Stubbs, Michael J. Benton, Armin Elsler, Albert Prieto-Márquez, 2019 / Paleobiology, Volume 45, Issue 2, pp. 347-362 /PDF
Morphology and taxonomy of Quetzalcoatlus Lawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea) / Brian Andres, Wann Langston Jr., 2021 / Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 41:sup1, 46-202, DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2021.1907587 /PDF
Morphological disparity and structural performance of the dromaeosaurid skull informs ecology and evolutionary history / Yuen Ting Tse, Case Vincent Miller, Michael Pittman, 2024 / BMC Ecology and Evolution, Volume 24, Article number: 39 (2024) /PDF
Morphology of a specimen of Supersaurus (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Morrison Formation of Wyoming, and a re-evaluation of diplodocid phylogeny / David M. Lovelace, Scott A. Hartman, William R. Wahl, 2007 / Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, v.65, n.4, p.527-544
Morphology, phylogenetic taxonomy, and systematics of Ichthyornis and Apatornis (Avialae: Ornithurae) / Julia A. Clarke, 2004 / Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 286, pp. 1–179
Morphometric assessment of pterosaur jaw disparity/ Charlie A. Navarro, Elizabeth Martin-Silverstone, Thomas L. Stubbs, 2018 / Royal Society Open Science, http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172130 /PDF
Mountain Building Triggered Late Cretaceous North American Megaherbivore Dinosaur Radiation / Terry A. Gates, Albert Prieto-Márquez, Lindsay E. Zanno, 2012 / PLoS ONE 7(8): e42135. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042135 /PDF
Mud-trapped herd captures evidence of distinctive dinosaur sociality/ David J. Varricchio, Paul C. Sereno, Zhao Xijn, Tan Lin, Jeffrey A. Wilson, Gabrielle H. Lyon, 2008 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 (4): 567–578 /PDF
Multibody analysis and soft tissue strength refute supersonic dinosaur tail / Simone Conti, Emanuel Tschopp, Octávio Mateus, Andrea Zanoni, Pierangelo Masarati, Giuseppe Sala, 2022 / Scientific Reports, Volume 12, Article number: 19245 /PDF
Multibody dynamics model of head and neck function in Allosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda) / Eric Snively, John R. Cotton, Ryan Ridgely, Lawrence M. Witmer, 2013 / Palaeontologia Electronica, 16.2.11A
Multiple pathways to herbivory underpinned deep divergences in ornithischian evolution / Button et al., 2023 / Current Biology, ISSN 0960-9822, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.12.019 /PDF
Multivariate Analyses of Small Theropod Dinosaur Teeth and Implications for Paleoecological Turnover through Time / Derek W. Larson, Philip J. Currie, 2013 / PLoS ONE 8(1): e54329. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054329 /PDF
Multivariate and Cladistic Analyses of Isolated Teeth Reveal Sympatry of Theropod Dinosaurs in the Late Jurassic of Northern Germany/ Oliver Gerke, Oliver Wings, 2016 / PLoS ONE 11(7): e0158334. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0158334 /PDF
Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber/ Xing et al., 2016 / Nature Communications 7:12089, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12089 /PDF/ Ergänzende Informationen
Muzquizopteryx coahuilensis n.g., n. sp., a nyctosaurid pterosaur with soft tissue preservation from the Coniacian (Late Cretaceous) of northeast Mexico (Coahuila) / Frey et al., 2006 / Oryctos 6:19-39