Dental morphology and variation in theropod dinosaurs: Implications for the taxonomic identification of isolated teeth

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 699-736

  Smith, Joshua B ^a,b   Vann, David R ^a   Dodson, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dinosauria; Discriminant analysis; Morphometrics; Taxonomy; Teeth; Theropoda

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL; MESOZOIC; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DENTAL PULP CALCIFICATION; DINOSAURS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FOSSILS; PALEONTOLOGY; TOOTH; TOOTH CROWN;

DINOSAURIA; THEROPODA; TYRANNOSAURUS;

EID: 23244463373     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20206     Document Type: Article

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