THE OSTEOLOGY OF MASIAKASAURUS KNOPFLERI, A SMALL ABELISAUROID (DINOSAURIA: THEROPODA) FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF MADAGASCAR

By Matthew Carrano, Scott Sampson, Catherine A Forster. 2002

265 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/58c654dc512ccf6e3ed1a336ce56ebf5ae3b7381

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. S. Nesbitt
2. M. Norell
3. Roger B. J. Benson
4. A. Turner
5. O. Mateus
6. R. Araújo
7. Christophe Hendrickx
8. R. Irmis

In Paleontology

1. S. Nesbitt
2. M. Norell
3. Roger B. J. Benson
4. S. Brusatte
5. O. Mateus
6. M. Langer
7. A. Turner
8. M. Ezcurra

Citations in the corpus

• New information on Nqwebasaurus thwazi, a coelurosaurian theropod from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation in South Africa (2012, background): “, Masiakasaurus [Carrano et al., 2002]), oviraptorosaurs (e.”
• THE POSTCRANIAL AXIAL SKELETON OF MAJUNGASAURUS CRENATISSIMUS (THEROPODA: ABELISAURIDAE) FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF MADAGASCAR (2007, background): “This contrasts with the dorsally elevated transverse processes observed in the proximal caudal series of many other abelisauroids such as Masiakasaurus (Carrano et al., 2002), Carnotaurus (Bonaparte et al., 1990:figs.”
• The Late Triassic dinosauromorph Sacisaurus agudoensis (Caturrita Formation; Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil): anatomy and affinities (2013, background): “17a, b) cranial and proximal to the trochanter/concavity, as seen in other dinosauromorphs (Madsen 1976; Raath 1977; Madsen & Welles 2000; Carrano et al. 2002; Nesbitt et al. 2009b; Langer et al. 2011).”
• The Early Evolution of Archosaurs: Relationships and the Origin of Major Clades (2011, background): “Metatarsal III, proximal end: (0) does not back to the ventral side of metatarsals II and IV; (1) backs metatarsals II and IV posteroventrally, resulting in a T-shaped proximal profile (‘‘antarctometatarsus’’) (Carrano et al., 2002; Tykoski, 2005a).”
• A reappraisal of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: evidence for their Gondwanan affinities (2010, background): “The base of the process in of Fukuiraptor and Australovenator is more transversely extended than in NMV P150070 and abelisauroids (e.g. Aucasaurus, Xenotarsosaurus, Masiakasaurus).”
• The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs (2010, background): “Most known definitive Late Triassic theropods may belong to a major clade called Coelophysoidea (e.g., Sereno, 1999; Carrano et al., 2002; Rauhut, 2003; Tykoski and Rowe, 2004; Carrano et al., 2005; Ezcurra and Novas, 2007; Smith et al., 2007).”
• Osteology and phylogeny of a new species of Araripesuchus (Crocodyliformes: Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar (2006, background): “…mammals, and dinosaurs (Krause and Grine 1996, Forster et al. 1996, Krause et al. 1997, Asher and Krause 1998, Gottfried et al. 1998, Sampson et al. 1998, Buckley and Brochu 1999, Buckley et al. 2000, 2003, Forster and O’Connor 2000, Carrano et al. 2002, Whatley and Buckley 2004).”
• A juvenile specimen of a new coelurosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Middle–Late Jurassic Shishugou Formation of Xinjiang, People's Republic of China (2014, background): “Megapnosaurus: Raath 1977), ceratosaurs (Carrano et al. 2002), and some maniraptorans (e.”
• The Dentition of Megalosaurid Theropods (2014, background): “The mesial teeth are lanceolate and have a strongly twisted mesial carina and fluted lingual surface (Carrano et al. 2002; Hendrickx and Mateus 2014a).”
• New materials of Masiakasaurus knopfleri Sampson, Carrano, and Forster, 2001, and implications for the morphology of the Noasauridae (Theropoda: Ceratosauria) (2011, background): “Specimens FMNH PR 2136 and 2217 (originally referred to the pes; Carrano et al., 2002) share similarly oblique distal condyles with the preceding elements, but the vertical axes of these condyles are not parallel and converge dorsally.”
• The Femoral Ontogeny and Long Bone Histology of the Middle Triassic (?Late Anisian) Dinosauriform Asilisaurus kongwe and Implications for the Growth of Early Dinosaurs (2016, background): “…individuals possessed prominent bone scars, whereas gracile individuals either completely lacked scars or had very poorly developed scars; in the 12 tibiae described, the same pattern holds, with gracile individuals also lacking fusion of the tibia and astragalocalcaneum (Carrano et al., 2002).”
• Anatomy of a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Hanson Formation of Antarctica (2007, background): “theropods, though is much thicker anteroposteriorly in Gla− cialisaurus than the medial epicondylar flanges typical of many early theropod dinosaurs (Carrano et al. 2002; Rauhut 2003).”