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The evolution and diversification of growth strategies in abelisauroid theropodsCitation for this article: Aureliano, T., Ghilardi, A. M., Fonseca, P. H. M., Martinelli, A. G., & Marinho, T. S. (2024) The evolution and diversification of growth strategies in abelisauroid theropods. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . by Tito Aureliano; Aline M. Ghilardi; Pedro H. M. Fonseca; Agustín G. Martinelli; Thiago S. Marinho is a Earth and Planetary Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

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Theropods comprise a successful group of mostly predatory dinosaurs with varied growth rates that colonized all continents. Much research has addressed the histology of the Global North's Mesozoic populations, especially coelurosaurians and allosauroids. However, little has been done to understand the histological patterns of the Gondwanan populations, especially abelisauroids. Previous studies detected disparate (parallel-fibered or fibrolamellar) bone profiles between noasaurids and abelisaurids but did not include broader quantitative analyses. Here we describe the femoral histology of a mid-sized abelisaurid from the Upper Cretaceous Serra da Galga Formation, Bauru Group, Southeast Brazil. Despite the harsh semiarid paleotropical context, our specimen shows a growth rate more similar to the Patagonian abelisaurids, challenging a previous hypothesis on environmental pressure selecting taxa with lower growth rates and parallel-fibered bone tissue. We also bring data to bear from several taxa to test the hypothesis of tissue differentiation within abelisauroid clades. Our logistic regression and correlation analyses show that the variation in histology in noasaurids and abelisauri

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Author

Tito Aureliano; Aline M. Ghilardi; Pedro H. M. Fonseca; Agustín G. Martinelli; Thiago S. Marinho

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2024

Language

EN

Field

Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)