A new basal hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan and the early radiation of duck-billed dinosaurs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1667, 2009, Pages 2549-2555

  Sues, Hans Dieter ^a   Averianov, Alexander ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Asia; Cretaceous; Dinosauria; Hadrosauroidea; Palaeobiogeography; Radiation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CENOMANIAN; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; TURONIAN;

ARALOSAURUS; ARTICLE; ASIA; BACTROSAURUS; CHINA; DINOSAUR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GILMOREOSAURUS; HADROSAURIDAE; LAMBEOSAURINAE; LEVNESOVIA TRANSOXIANA; MONOPHYLY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TANIUS; TAXON; TELMATOSAURUS; UPPER CRETACEOUS; UZBEKISTAN;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL; UZBEKISTAN; WEST ASIA;

BACTROSAURUS; DINOSAURIA; HADROSAURIDAE; HADROSAURINAE; HADROSAUROIDEA; LAMBEOSAURINAE; TELMATOSAURUS;

EID: 67650490103     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0229     Document Type: Article

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