The Dinosource

• YDAW episode on Velociraptor, covering just about everything you could want to know about this beast
• Velociraptor definitely had feathers
• The “fighting dinosaurs” fossil is remarkably poorly-described online
• A discussion of the multiple origins of theropod flight, including velociraptor and other dromaeosaurids
• Velociraptors were likely nocturnal
• The incredible 1969 Ostrom monograph on Deinonychus, including Bakker’s famous illustration
• Evidence of Velociraptor scavenging an azhdarchid
• Prairie dogs do indeed have a surprising vocabulary

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• Discussion of evidence of late sauropods (titanosaurs) eating grasses in India, as seen in their poop
• Rhamphorynchus with a big ol’ fish in its stomach
• Turns out herbivorous dinosaurs ate plants. This paper is far less about what they ate and far more about how we know we’ve found stomach or gut contents (enterolites or cololites).
• Evidence of dung beetles in dino poop!
• Carnivorous poop fossilizes better than herbivorous poop
• T. rex poop! But in fancy science words.
• Maiasaura ate wood
• Incredible preservation of muscle in a dino-poop
• “Herbivore” doesn’t necessarily mean what you think it does: it seems some plant-muncher was also chomping on crustaceans.
• Telling fossilized poop from fossilized vomit: harder than it sounds.
• Want more info on how coprolites and similar terms were named? Well have I got a highly amusing paper for you.
• Original description of Gryposaurus in the Ottawa Naturalist
• Borealopelta was a fussy eater
• The open access paper describing Borealopelta

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• Sauropod egg size
• Sauropod parenting
• This is the best source I have on baby sauropods running. All the sources I can find are press releases from late 2010, and I haven’t been able to find any papers which may have come out of this.
• Paul Sereno on a dig, doing his best Indiana Jones impression
• Bajadasaurus, the wackiest sauropod of them all?
• Source on Bajadasaurus size and weight, assuming it is similarly sized to Amargasaurus and Dicraeosaurus
• Okay my reference on the goat eyes thing isn’t the best
• Pneumaticity of neck vertebrae in dicraeosaurid sauropods

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• An excellent summary of the Hell Creek Formation and the dinosaurs found there by Russel et al
• Horner et al’s discussion of the prevalence of Tyrannosaurus fossils compared to Edmontosaurus
• Remember Kosmoceratops? The paper describing that genus also gives evidence of the “dinosaur provincialism” theory postulating separation of dinosaurs in Laramidia into northern and southern “provinces”
• Something a lot like a Tyrannosaurus was chomping on Edmontosaurus
• I don’t have a great source on the “T. rex olfactory bulb was smaller than some papers indicate”, but in my defence Dr David Hone (a real paleontologist) said it on a podcast so it has to be right
• Farlow’s paper on how T. rex would have died if it ran as fast as depicted in the movie
• Tyrannosaurus was likely too big for feathers
• If T. rex did have feathers, it probably didn’t look like this, which makes us sad
• The paper introducing Dakotaraptor to the world
• The closely-related-maybe-the-same-dinosaur Acheroraptor
• Was Dakotaraptor actually just a big Acheroraptor? Andrea Cau has some thoughts!
• Whoops that bone was actually from a turtle, not a Dakotaraptor
• Roach et al. take on the “hunting in packs” hypothesis

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• Mark Witton’s excellent book, Pterosaurs
• Anurognathids may have had feathers! Don’t quote me on that.
• Nyctosaurus, one of the fanciest flappy bois
• The paper which named "pycnofibres"
• Pterodactylus kochi with preservation of neck tissue. Source indicates that it is P. scolopaciceps rather than P. kochi. Both of these species have since been moved out of the Pterodactylus genus, and it’s unclear to me to which species and genus this should now be attributed. Comments and clarifications welcome.
• Pterosaur posture in water, with bonus information on how they would have taken off!
• Pterodaustra, a much cooler pterosaur than Pterodactylus
• The confusing history of study of pterosaur locomotion
• How Dimorphodon helped us understand how pterosaurs walked
• De La Beche was indeed a slave owner! We don't like him.

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• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191106112109.htm
• News article summarizing “flash fossilization” (bacteria replacing organic matter, then fossilizing) 
• Microbes can play a large role in fossilization! We weren’t able to get to it in this episode, but further reading if you’re interested
• A good overview of the diagenesis process
• Geology lab notes from a first-year university course which are more about marine life, but give a good overview of fossils caused by alteration.
• Just another nice overview of fossilization
• Scholarly article on Eric, the opalized pliosaur
• An Iguanodon specimen where the entire holotype is opalized
• Cast fossils
• Formal description of Kosmoceratops
• Information on Umoonasaurus

• Facial integument in centrosaurines which doubles in a very good primer on close-to-the-bone integument
• Thoughts on the trend of “shrink-wrapping” dinosaur reconstructions (by Mark Witton)
• Discussion of the evolution of frilled lizards and other display structures in lizards
• Seriously, Dilophosaurus didn’t have a frill and saying there wouldn’t be fossil evidence if it did is wrong
• Pachyrhinosaurus restored with a comically large nose horn
• Much of this episode’s material either came from or was informed by Mark Witton’s “Palaeoartist’s Handbook”
• Conway and Naish’s excellent book “All Yesterdays”

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• A wonderful biography of Joseph Leidy
• Troodontids had neat pants
• Troodontids did not necessarily use their pants to fly
• Troodon formosus is no longer valid
• List of dinosaur species described in the Bone Wars with notes on which ones are still valid
• More troodontid research! This one describes Albertavenator
• Troodontids slept like birds!
• The introduction of the troodontid Talos as well as a good summary of troodontid research circa 2011
• We know what hadrosaur feet look like because we’ve got a near-mummified one!

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• Cope responds to Marsh’s gloating over the Elasmosaurus incident
• The Saga of Coelophysis, detailing the names given to this genus
• How many specimens of sauropod do we have with complete necks?
• Cope describes Camarasaurus based on a few vertebra
• No evidence of cannibalism, but here’s the paper Dave was thinking of about Alloosaurs being drawn together by drought

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• Allosaurus feeding behaviour
• Allosaurus’ initial description by Marsh
• Marsh’s additional notes on Diplodocus (likely featuring a diplodocid skull from a genus which is not Diplodocus)
• An account of Marsh’s life and fossil-hunting expeditions by the Yale Peabody Museum
• We don’t have a complete Diplodocus neck
• Diplodocids could whip their tails fast enough to create sonic booms
• Why sauropods had long necks; and why giraffes have short necks
• Your Dinosaurs are Wrong on Allosaurus

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