The last polar dinosaurs: High diversity of latest Cretaceous arctic dinosaurs in Russia

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 495-501

  Godefroit, Pascal ^a   Golovneva, Lina ^b   Shchepetov, Sergei ^b   Garcia, Géraldine ^c   Alekseev, Pavel ^b  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b KOMAROV BOTANICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Extinction; Late Cretaceous; Polar dinosaurs; Russia

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DINOSAUR; ECTOTHERMY; MAASTRICHTIAN; MASS EXTINCTION; POLAR REGION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CANADA; CLIMATE; DINOSAURS; ECOSYSTEM; EGG SHELL; FEMALE; FLOWERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; RUSSIA; TREES;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; DINOSAURIA; HADROSAURIDAE; REPTILIA; THEROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 63949083690     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0499-0     Document Type: Article

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