Almost all known sauropod necks are incomplete and distorted

Ten more years of discovery: revisiting the quality of the sauropodomorph dinosaur fossil record

(2020) Daniel D. Cashmore et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Retrodeformation of fossil specimens based on 3D bilateral semi-landmarks: Implementation in the R package “Morpho”

(2018) Stefan Schlager et al.   PLoS One

Retrodeformation as a test for the validity of phylogenetic characters: an example from diplodocid sauropod vertebrae

(2018) E Tschopp et al.   PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA

Redescription of the cervical vertebrae of the Mamenchisaurid Sauropod Xinjiangtitan shanshanesis Wu et al. 2013

(2018) Xiao-Qin Zhang et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

A new giant titanosaur sheds light on body mass evolution among sauropod dinosaurs

(2017) José L. Carballido et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A new sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China and the diversity, distribution, and relationships of mamenchisaurids

(2015) Lida Xing et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

The fossil record of ichthyosaurs, completeness metrics and sampling biases

(2015) Terri J. Cleary et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Pathological phalanges in a camarasaurid sauropod dinosaur and implications on behaviour

(2014) Emanuel Tschopp et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

A Gigantic, Exceptionally Complete Titanosaurian Sauropod Dinosaur from Southern Patagonia, Argentina

(2014) Kenneth J. Lacovara et al.   Scientific Reports

Lujiatun Psittacosaurids: Understanding Individual and Taphonomic Variation Using 3D Geometric Morphometrics

(2013) Brandon P. Hedrick et al.   PLoS One

The Effect of Intervertebral Cartilage on Neutral Posture and Range of Motion in the Necks of Sauropod Dinosaurs

(2013) Michael P. Taylor et al.   PLoS One

Why sauropods had long necks; and why giraffes have short necks

(2013) Michael P. Taylor et al.   PeerJ

The skull and neck of a new flagellicaudatan sauropod from the Morrison Formation and its implication for the evolution and ontogeny of diplodocid dinosaurs

(2012) Emanuel Tschopp et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

The beginning of the sauropod dinosaur hiatus in North America: insights from the Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation of Wyoming

(2012) Michael D. D’Emic et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Evidence for taphonomic size bias in the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian, Alberta), a model Mesozoic terrestrial alluvial‐paralic system

(2012) Caleb Marshall Brown et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Completeness of the Fossil Record of Mesozoic Birds: Implications for Early Avian Evolution

(2012) Neil Brocklehurst et al.   PLoS One

The long necks of sauropods did not evolve primarily through sexual selection

(2011) M. P. Taylor et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

First complete sauropod dinosaur skull from the Cretaceous of the Americas and the evolution of sauropod dentition

(2010) Daniel Chure et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Completeness metrics and the quality of the sauropodomorph fossil record through geological and historical time

(2010) Philip D. Mannion et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Redescription and reassessment of the phylogenetic affinities ofeuhelopus zdanskyi(Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the early cretaceous of China

(2009) Jeffrey A. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

A re-evaluation ofBrachiosaurus altithoraxRiggs 1903 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) and its generic separation fromGiraffatitan brancai(Janensch 1914)

(2009) Michael P. Taylor   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

A New Basal Sauropod Dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Niger and the Early Evolution of Sauropoda

(2009) Kristian Remes et al.   PLoS One