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Summary: Requested References
Thanks to everyone who responded to my requests last week for
references to do with herbivorous/omnivorous theropods, the reality of
species, the over-splitting of Tyrannosauridae and relative diversity
of carnivores and herbivores in extant ecosystems:
Mickey Mortimer <Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com>
Jaime A. Headden <qilongia@yahoo.com>
Colin McHenry <cmchenry@westserv.net.au>
SeanSt8579@aol.com
A.P. Hazen <a.hazen@philosophy.unimelb.edu.au>
Here is the promised summary.
On herbivorous/omnivorous theropods:
Holtz, T. R., Jr., D. L. Brinkman and C. L. Chandler. 1998.
Denticle Morphometrics and a Possibly Omnivorous Feeding Habit
for the Theropod Dinosaur _Troodon_. Gaia 15:159-166.
http://www.mnhn.ul.pt/Gaia%2015%20papers/Gaia%20(15T-P159-166)-HOLTZjr.pdf
(This paper contains references for possible herbivory or
omnivory in therizinosaurs and ornithomimosaurs.)
On over-split tyrannosaurids:
Carr, 1999. Craniofacial ontogeny in Tyrannosauridae
(Dinosauria, Coelurosauria). Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology, 19: 497-520.
Holtz, 2001. The phylogeny and taxonomy of the
Tyrannosauridae. In Mesozoic vertebrate life. Edited by Tanke
and Carpenter. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and
Indianapolis, Ind., pp. 64-83.
Currie, 2003. Allometric growth in tyrannosaurids (Dinosauria:
Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of North America and
Asia. CJES 40, 651-665.
Currie, P.J., Hurum, J.H., and Sabath, K. 2003. Skull
structure and evolution in tyrannosaurid dinosaurs. Acta
Palaeontologica Polonica 48 (2): 227-234.
http://app.pan.pl/acta48/app48-227.pdf
Hurum and Sabath, 2003. Giant theropod dinosaurs from Asia and
North America: Skulls of Tarbosaurus bataar and Tyrannosaurus
rex compared. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48 (2): 161-190.
http://app.pan.pl/acta48/app48-161.pdf
Relative diversity of carnivores and herbivores: it doesn't seem that
this has really been written about much. The only reply I got was a
suggestion that some of the references from the following paper might
be useful:
Farlow, James O. and Eric R. Pianka (2003). Body Size
Overlap, Habitat Partitioning and Living Space Requirements of
Terrestrial Vertebrate Predators: Implications for the
Paleoecology of Large Theropod Dinosaurs. Historical Biology,
March 2002 Vol. 16 (1), pp. 21-40
On the reality of species and arbitrariness of genus:
Lee, M.S.Y. 2003. Species concepts and species reality:
salvaging a Linnaean rank. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16:
179-188.
Cantino et al. 1999. Species names in phylogenetic
nomenclature. Systematic Biology 48: 790-807.
Pleijel, E. & Rouse, G.W. 2000. Least-inclusive taxonomic
unit: a new taxonomic concept for biology. Proceedings of the
Royal Society of London B 267: 627-630.
de Queiroz, K. & Gauthier, J. 1992. Phylogenetic
taxonomy. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 23:
449-480.
de Queiroz, K. & Gauthier, J. Toward a phylogenetic system of
biological nomenclature. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9:
27-31.
de Queiroz, K. 1997. Misunderstandings about the phylogenetic
approach to biological nomenclature: a reply to Liden and
Oxelman. Zoologica Scripta 26: 67-70.
Lee, M.S.Y. 1998. Stability of higher taxa in phylogenetic
nomenclature - some comments on Moore (1998). Zoologica
Scripta 28: 361-366.
Sereno, P.C. 1999. Definitions in phylogenetic taxonomy:
critique and rationale. Systematic Biology 48: 329-351.
John Wilkin's Ph.D thesis:
ftp://ftp.wehi.edu.au/pub/wilkinsftp/Thesisfinal.pdf
I hope someone else finds these useful, or at least interesting.
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