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| Involve measuring the timing of molecular changes in proteins, |
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| Compares two strands of DNA, |
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| Flight was attempted four times, |
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| Provide support for theropods living in groups, |
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| Closest living archosaur relatives (crocodiles and waterfowl) provide the best evidence about the mating behavior., |
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| Indicates multiple theropod groups were pack hunters., |
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| Indirect evidence of predator-prey relationships can be inferred from bite marks and coprolites, |
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| CT scans and Brain Endocasts with living archosaurs allows insight into sensory organs of theropods, |
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| Skulls and jaw morphology |
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| Skull and Jaw Morphology can be used to infer different prey-capturing techniques, |
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| Skulls of most theropods were large relative to their bodies, |
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| Collecting and sorting these from under sampled geologic units can address size and stratigraphic biases., |
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| Can address geographic biases, |
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| Late Cretaceous time; Warmest time intervalsl |
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| Late Cretaceous time; Coolest time intervals |
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| Low diversity; has more birds and plesiosaurs, |
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| High diversity; has more sharks and turtles, |
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| Nicholls and Russel (1990) |
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| Defined a northern and southern community zone for WIS (Western Interior Seaway), |
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| "Geographic, stratigraphic, preservational, taxonomic, and size", |
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| "Bony fish, sharks, skates, rays, crocodiles, turtles, birds, plesiosaurs and mosasaurs", |
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| Father of biostratigraphy, |
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| Division between Indonesia and Australia, |
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