A new basal sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Niger and the early evolution of sauropoda

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Remes, Kristian ^a   Ortega, Francisco ^b   Fierro, Ignacio ^c   Joger, Ulrich ^d   Kosma, Ralf ^d   Ferrer, José Manuel Marín ^c   Chiappe, Luis M ^f   Dantas, Pedro ^f   Escaso, Fernando ^f   Gasulla, José Miguel ^f   López, Enrique ^f   Pomares, Antonio ^f   Ribeiro, Bruno ^f   Sanz, José Luiz ^f   Tent Manclús, José Enriqie ^f   Faust, Jörg ^f   Joger, Hannah ^f   Joger, Jannis ^f   Krüger, Fritz J ^f   Mudroch, Alexander ^f   Rabe, Michel ^f   Ritter, Hans Joachim ^f   Sommer, Edgar ^f   Ide, Oumarou Amadou ^e   Maga, Abdoulaye ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^c Museo Paleontológico de Elche and Fundación CIDARIS   (Spain)

^d Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum Braunschweig   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITÉ ABDOU MOUMOUNI   (Niger)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; MIDDLE JURASSIC; NEW GENUS; NIGER; NONHUMAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLESIOMORPHY; SAUROPODA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPHINOPHOROSAURUS NIGERENSIS; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME;

DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; NIGER; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349482085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006924     Document Type: Article

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