Meta-analytical phylogenetic review and biogeography of Titanosauriformes (Sauropoda, Dinosauria)

• Grant number: 18/21094-7
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): January 01, 2019
• Effective date (End): December 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Paleozoology
• Principal researcher: Max Cardoso Langer
• Grantee: Julian Cristian Gonçalves da Silva Junior
• Home Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Titanosauriformes composes the most abundant clade of Sauropod dinosaurs, distributed worldwide during the Cretaceous, but the several phylogenetic analyses made up to this date to the group resulted on proposals highly incongruent between them. Aiming to understand the reasons that caused such incongruities, it is proposed here a set of meta-analytical studies based upon the Titanosauriformes phylogenies published on the last years. The resulting hypothesis will be subjected to an ancestral area analysis, using the parametric probabilistic model on the package BioGeoBEARs to the R Environment. Therefore, the new proposal will be usueful not only to understand the evolutionary patterns of the group, but also as a background to investigate the biogeographic history of the Titanosauriformes. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

SILVA JUNIOR, JULIAN C. G.; MARTINELLI, AGUSTIN G.; IORI, V, FABIANO; MARINHO, THIAGO S.; HECHENLEITNER, E. MARTIN; LANGER, MAX C.. eassessment of Aeolosaurus maximus, a titanosaur dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Southeastern Brazi. HISTORICAL BIOLOGY, v. 34, n. 3, p. 403-411, MAR 4 2022. (18/21094-7)

AURELIANO, TITO; GHILARDI, ALINE M.; SILVA-JUNIOR, JULIAN C. G.; MARTINELLI, AGUSTIN G.; BORGES RIBEIRO, LUIZ CARLOS; MARINHO, THIAGO; FERNANDES, MARCELO A.; RICARDI-BRANCO, FRESIA; MARTIN SANDER, P.. Influence of taphonomy on histological evidence for vertebral pneumaticity in an Upper Cretaceous titanosaur from South America. CRETACEOUS RESEARCH, v. 108, APR 2020. (18/21094-7, 16/20927-0)