Le sexe chez les ptérosaures : une affaire de crête

Sur les crêtes des ptérosaures et leur fonction

• Bennett, S.C., 1992 – « Sexual dimorphism of Pteranodon and other Pterosaurs, with comments on cranial crests ». Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 12, p. 422–434
• Bennett, S.C., 2001 – The osteology and functional morphology of the late Cretaceous pterosaur Pteranodon. Palaeontographica, A 260, p. 1-153.
• Elgin R.A., Grau C.A., Palmer C., Hone D.W.E., Greenwell D. & Benton M.J., 2008 – Aerodynamic characters of the cranial crest in Pteranodon. Zitteliana, B 28, p. 167-174.
• Tomkins J.L., LeBas N.R.,Witton M.P. , Martill D.M. & Humphries S., 2010 – « Positive allometry and the prehistory of sexual selection ». The American Naturalist, 176(2) (Doi: 10.1086/653001)

Sur Darwinopterus modularis :

• Ji Q., Ji S.-A., Cheng Y.-N., You H.-L., Lü J.-C., Liu Y.-Q. & Yuan C.-X. 2004 – “Pterosaur egg with a leathery shell”. Nature, 43, 572.
• Lü J., Unwin D.M., Deeming D.C., Jin X., Liu Y. & Ji Q., 2011 – “An egg-adult association, gender, and reproduction in Pterosaurs”. Science, 331, p. 321-324.
• Lü J., Unwin D. M., Jin X., Liu Y. & Ji Q. 2009 – “Evidence for modular evolution in a long-tailed pterosaur with a pterodactyloid skull”, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 277: 383-389 (Doi : 10.1098/rspb.2009.1603)

Sur les “structures étranges” chez les dinosaures et autres animaux préhistoriques :

• Padian K. and Horner J.R., 2011 – “The evolution of ‘bizarre structures’ in dinosaurs: biomechanics, sexual selection, social selection or species recognition?”, Journal of Zoology (London), 283, p. 3–17.
• Knell R.J. & Sampson S., 2011 – “Bizarre structures in dinosaurs: species recognition or sexual selection? A response to Padian and Horner”,  Journal of Zoology (London), 283, p. 18-22.
• Padian K. and Horner J.R., 2011 – “The definition of sexual selection and its implications for dinosaurian biology”, Journal of Zoology (London), 283, p. 23-27.
• Knell R. J., Naish D., Tomkins J. L. & Hone D. W. E., 2013 – « Sexual selection in fossil animals detection and implications”, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 28(1), p. 38-47.