Structural extremes in a cretaceous dinosaur

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Sereno, Paul C ^a   Wilson, Jeffrey A ^b   Witmer, Lawrence M ^c   Whitlock, John A ^b   Maga, Abdoulaye ^d   Ide, Oumarou ^d   Rowe, Timothy A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ ABDOU MOUMOUNI   (Niger)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE REMODELING; BONE STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL ANIMAL; HEAD POSITION; HERBIVORE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; JAW; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SKELETON; TOOTH; ANIMAL; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSILS;

EID: 40349085214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001230     Document Type: Article

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