Dinosaurs and the cretaceous terrestrial revolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1650, 2008, Pages 2483-2490

  Lloyd, Graeme T ^a   Davis, Katie E ^b   Pisani, Davide ^c   Tarver, James E ^a   Ruta, Marcello ^a   Sakamoto, Manabu ^a   Hone, David W E ^d,e   Jennings, Rachel ^a   Benton, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d BAYERISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG FÜR PALÄONTOLOGIE UND GEOLOGIE   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Angiosperm; Biodiversity; Cretaceous; Dinosaur; Supertree

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ARTIFACT; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION; MAMMAL; SAMPLING BIAS; SOCIAL INSECT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CARNIVORE; CLADISTICS; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; HERBIVORE; NONHUMAN; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES;

ANKYLOSAURIDAE; AVES; DINOSAURIA; HADROSAURIDAE; HEXAPODA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MAMMALIA; NEOCERATOPSIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 52749084844     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0715     Document Type: Article

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