The first 50Myr of dinosaur evolution: Macroevolutionary pattern and morphological disparity

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 733-736

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crurotarsi; Dinosauria; Disparity; Diversity; Evolutionary radiation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTIVE RADIATION; DINOSAUR; JURASSIC; MACROECOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY; TRIASSIC;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CARNIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUROTARSAN ARCHOSAUR; DINOSAUR; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FAUNA; HYPOTHESIS; LOWER JURASSIC; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; TAXONOMY; TIME; UPPER TRIASSIC;

CRUROTARSI; DINOSAURIA;

EID: 58149218308     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0441     Document Type: Article

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