A late triassic dinosauromorph assemblage from New Mexico and the rise of dinosaurs

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5836, 2007, Pages 358-361

  Irmis, Randall B ^a   Nesbitt, Sterling J ^b,c   Padian, Kevin ^a   Smith, Nathan D ^d,e   Turner, Alan H ^c   Woody, Daniel ^f   Downs, Alex ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g Ghost Ranch Conference Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DINOSAUR; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOLATITUDE; PRESERVATION; TRIASSIC;

ARTICLE; DINOSAUR; FAUNA; FOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TRIASSIC; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; FEMUR; FOSSILS; NEW MEXICO; PHYLOGENY; TALUS; TIBIA; TIME; TOOTH;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

DINOSAURIA; DINOSAUROMORPHA;

EID: 34547119268     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1143325     Document Type: Article

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28. Fieldwork and research were funded by the National Geographic Society (grant no. 8014-06) (to K.P.), David Clark Inc., the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund (to R.B.I.), the Jurassic Foundation (to S.J.N.), a Bryan Patterson Memorial Grant (to R.B.I.), an N5F Graduate Fellowship (to R.B.I, and S.J.N.), and the UC-Berkeley Department of Integrative Biology (to R.B.I.). We thank the staff and paleontology seminar participants at Ghost Ranch, A. Balanoff, G. Bever, M. Cohen, W. G. Parker, M. Brown, and M. Stocker for assistance with fieldwork. Ghost Ranch, the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), American Museum of Natural History, and Field Museum of Natural History all facilitated the preparation of specimens. This is UCMP contribution no. 1949.