The skull of the giant predatory pliosaur Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni: Implications for plesiosaur phylogenetics

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 975-980

  Smith, Adam S ^a,b   Dyke, Gareth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Cladistics; Phylogenetics; Plesiosaurs; Reptiles

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; DINOSAUR; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; HETTANGIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PREDATOR; SKULL; TURONIAN;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FOSSIL; JURASSIC; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLIOSAUR; PREDATION; REPTILE; RHOMALEOSAURUS CRAMPTONI; SKULL; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREAT BRITAIN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPTILES; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

REPTILIA; RHOMALEOSAURIDAE;

EID: 53849110594     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0402-z     Document Type: Article

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