The titanosaur (dinosauria: sauropoda) osteoderm record: Review and first definitive specimen from India

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 165-177

  D'Emic, Michael D ^a   Wilson, Jeffrey A ^a   Chatterjee, Sankar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DINOSAUR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LITERATURE REVIEW; MAASTRICHTIAN; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; NEW RECORD; PHYLOGENETICS; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY; TYPE SPECIMEN;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA; TITANOSAURIA;

EID: 65349125848     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/039.029.0131     Document Type: Article

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