A primitive euhadrosaurian dinosaur from the uppermost Cretaceous of the Ager syncline (southern Pyrenees, Catalonia)

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 78, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 345-356

  Casanovas, M L ^a   Pereda Suberbiola, X ^b,c   Santafe J V ^a   Weishampel, D B ^d  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadrosauridae; Iberian peninsula; Lleida; Maastrichtian

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; MAASTRICHTIAN;

SPAIN;

EID: 0033505287     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1003859501941     Document Type: Article

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