Evolution of Herbivory in Terrestrial Vertebrates: Prosauropod dinosaurs and iguanas: speculations on the diets of extinct reptiles

By Paul M. Barrett. 2000

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Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

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In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. S. Nesbitt
2. R. Butler
3. R. Irmis
4. M. Langer
5. Paul Upchurch
6. Michael Benton
7. D. Norman
8. O. Mateus

In Paleontology

1. S. Nesbitt
2. R. Butler
3. M. Langer
4. R. Irmis
5. Paul Upchurch
6. Michael Benton
7. D. Norman
8. W. Parker

Citations in the corpus

• Early ornithischian dinosaurs: the Triassic record (2007, background): “Barrett (2000) suggested that taxa with these “herbivorous-like” teeth were more parsimoniously interpreted to have an omnivorous feeding ecology that lay somewhere on the spectrum between full carnivory and full herbivory.”
• The distribution of dental features in non-avian theropod dinosaurs: Taxonomic potential, degree of homoplasy, and major evolutionary trends (2019, background): “Therizinosaur teeth are convergent with those of basal sauropodomorphs and iguanas (Barrett, 2000).”
• The anatomy of the basal ornithischian dinosaur Eocursor parvus from the lower Elliot Formation (Late Triassic) of South Africa (2010, background): “The rounded femoral head is weakly medially inturned and offset from the medial margin of the shaft by a distinct break-in-slope, although there is no clear development of a ‘neck’: the inturned femoral head is less well developed in Eocursor than in basal saurischians (e.g. Herrerasaurus, Novas, 19”
• The evolution of jaw mechanism and dental function in heterodont crocodyliforms (2014, background): “…processing and indicates that complex dentition and specialised feeding strategies appeared already during the very early diversification of the group; amajor evolutionary pattern that similarly existed in early pterosaurs (Ősi 2011) and dinosaurs (e.g. Barrett 2000; Galton and Upchurch 2004).”
• Body Size Overlap, Habitat Partitioning and Living Space Requirements of Terrestrial Vertebrate Predators: Implications for the Paleoecology of Large Theropod Dinosaurs (2002, background): “Conceivably these dinosaurs partook of plant matter as well as animal prey (Holtz et al., 2000; Barrett, 2000), but we include them in our analysis.”
• The phylogeny of the ornithischian dinosaurs (2008, background): “The vast majority of ornithischians are believed to have been herbivorous, although some basal forms have been interpreted as potentially omnivorous (Barrett 2000).”
• Postcranial Osteology of Azendohsaurus madagaskarensis (?Middle to Upper Triassic, Isalo Group, Madagascar) and its Systematic Position Among Stem Archosaur Reptiles (2015, background): “…skull morphology and form of the marginal teeth between A. madagaskarensis and early sauropodomorph dinosaurs (Flynn et al., 2010), many of which have been interpreted as herbivorous adaptations in early sauropodomorphs (Weishampel and Norman, 1989; Barrett, 2000; Sues, 2000; Goswami et al., 2005).”
• The 'fabrosaurid' ornithischian dinosaurs of the Upper Elliot Formation (Lower Jurassic) of South Africa and Lesotho (2005, background): “Based upon the development of the sacral ribs, the order of incorporation of vertebrae into the sacrum in SAM-PK-K1107 can be tentatively reconstructed (Fig. 22). Sacral 2, a dorsosacral, was probably incorporated first, followed by sacral 5, a caudosacral. Sacral 1, an additional dorsosacral, is in”
• The Dentition of Megalosaurid Theropods (2014, background): “…or bear very few serrations, and either minute denticles or large pointed denticles sometimes changing dramatically in shape along the carinae (e.g., Currie 1987; Currie et al. 1990; Clark et al. 1994; Zhao and Xu 1998; Barrett 2000; Norell et al. 2009; Zanno 2010; Hendrickx and Mateus 2014b).”
• Early dinosaurs: A phylogenetic study (2006, background): “Indeed, dinosaurs are part of an archosaur radiation that primitively preyed upon small animals or were adapted to an omnivorous diet (Arcucci 1997; Benton 1999; Barrett 2000).”
• VERTEBRATE DISPERSAL OF SEED PLANTS THROUGH TIME (2004, background): “Smaller terrestrial reptiles Many modern lizards are omnivorous (Barrett 2000) and are known to disperse fruits and seeds (e.g., Lord & Marshall 2001, Valido & Nogales 2003).”
• A Proposed Terminology of Theropod Teeth (Dinosauria, Saurischia) (2015, background): “It is also present in ornithischians, some sauropodomorphs, and iguanas (e.g., Barrett, 2000; Ara ujo et al., 2011; Becerra et al., 2013).”