A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1663, 2009, Pages 1815-1821

  Mateus, Octávio ^a,b,d   Maidment, Susannah C R ^c   Christiansen, Nicolai A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinha   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d 1402 Norfolk Mansion ^*  (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Dacentrurus; Miragaia longicollum; Neck elongation; Niche partitioning; Sexual selection; Stegosaurian dinosaurs

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; BONE; CONVERGENCE; JURASSIC; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; NICHE PARTITIONING; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; DINOSAUR; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SYNECOLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

DINOSAURIA; LONGICOLLUM; ORNITHISCHIA; SAUROPODA; SCUTELLOSAURUS; STEGOSAURIA; STEGOSAURUS;

EID: 66149179269     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1909     Document Type: Article

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