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One of the greatest unsolved dinosaur mysteries is what the first one actually was. The fossil record is far from complete, but palaeontologists are getting closer than ever to finally solving this question! These earliest dinosaurs include some fearsome predators such as Staurikosaurus and Herrerasaurus, as well as early sauropodomorphs and potentially even the first of the ornithischians.
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tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2024.2346577
One of the greatest unsolved dinosaur mysteries is what the first one actually was. The fossil record is far from complete, but palaeontologists are getting closer than ever to finally solving this question! These earliest dinosaurs include some fearsome predators such as Staurikosaurus and Herrerasaurus, as well as early sauropodomorphs and potentially even the first of the ornithischians.
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Sources:
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895981121001887?via%3Dihub
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00094.x
nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05133-x
nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67854-1
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X18300327?via%3Dihub
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895981121001887?via%3Dihub
cambridge.org/core/journals/earth-and-environmental-science-transactions-of-royal-society-of-edinburgh/article/abs/new-dinosaur-species-from-the-upper-triassic-upper-maleri-and-lower-dharmaram-formations-of-central-india/9E58C8C54890FFF92FE9DC4191DCDCFA
pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1512541112
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3565515
nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0305-5
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0221387
cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)31124-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982216311241%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2021.1873433
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2024.2346577
