Giants and bizarres: Body size of some Southern South American Cretaceous dinosaurs

Historical Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 71-83

  Mazzetta, Gerardo V ^a   Christiansen, Per ^b   Fariña, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Amargasaurus; Antarctosaurus; Argentinosaurus; Carnotaurus; Giganotosaurus; South American dinosaurs

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; MORPHOLOGY;

SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA; THEROPODA;

EID: 12144272484     PISSN: 08912963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08912960410001715132     Document Type: Article

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