Sauropod dinosaur phylogeny: Critique and cladistic analysis

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 215-275

  Wilson, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Morphology; Sauropodomorpha; Systematics; Vertebrate palaeontology

Indexed keywords

DICRAEOSAURIDAE; DINOSAURIA; DIPLODOCIDAE; SAUROPODA; SAUROPODOMORPHA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036791125     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00029.x     Document Type: Article

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