Testing co-evolutionary hypotheses over geological timescales: Interactions between Mesozoic non-avian dinosaurs and cycads

Biological Reviews

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-89

  Butler, Richard J ^a   Barrett, Paul M ^a   Kenrick, Paul ^a   Penn, Malcolm G ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Co evolution; Cycads; Dinosaurs; Diversity; Fossil record; Geographical information systems; Macroevolution; Sauropodomorphs; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CYCADOPHYTA; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSILS; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

AVES; CYCADOPSIDA; DINOSAURIA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MAMMALIA; SAUROPODOMORPHA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 58849086642     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2008.00065.x     Document Type: Article

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