The Late Triassic pseudosuchian Revueltosaurus callenderi and its implications for the diversity of early ornithischian dinosaurs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1566, 2005, Pages 963-969

  Parker, William G ^a   Irmis, Randall B ^a,b   Nesbitt, Sterling J ^c   Martz, Jeffrey W ^d   Browne, Lori S ^e  

^a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Late Triassic; Ornithischia; Petrified Forest National Park; Pseudosuchia; Revueltosaurus

Indexed keywords

DINOSAUR; FOSSIL RECORD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRIASSIC;

ALLIGATOR; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVUELTOSAURUS CALLENDERI; SKELETON;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CROCODYLOMORPHA; DINOSAURIA; ORNITHISCHIA; PISANOSAURUS; PISANOSAURUS MERTII; REVUELTOSAURUS; REVUELTOSAURUS CALLENDERI;

EID: 21844468803     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.3047     Document Type: Article

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