Superiority, competition, and opportunism in the evolutionary radiation of dinosaurs

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5895, 2008, Pages 1485-1488

  Brusatte, Stephen L ^a,b,c   Benton, Michael J ^a   Ruta, Marcello ^a   Lloyd, Graeme T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DINOSAUR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; TRIASSIC;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; HERBIVORE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; SYNECOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

DINOSAURIA;

EID: 51749121248     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1161833     Document Type: Article

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