Diversity patterns amongst herbivorous dinosaurs and plants during the Cretaceous: Implications for hypotheses of dinosaur/angiosperm co-evolution

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 446-459

  Butler, R J ^a   Barrett, P M ^a   Kenrick, P ^a   Penn, M G ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Co evolution; Cretaceous; Dinosaurs; Herbivory; Macroevolution

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; COEVOLUTION; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; HERBIVORE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PALEOBIOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; TIME FACTORS;

ANKYLOSAURIA; CERATOPSIA; CONIFEROPHYTA; CYCADEOIDALES; CYCADOPHYTA; CYCADOPSIDA; DINOSAURIA; FILICALES; GINKGOALES; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ORNITHOPODA; SAUROPODOMORPHA; STEGOSAURIA; THEROPODA;

EID: 60649084061     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01680.x     Document Type: Article

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