Extreme cranial ontogeny in the upper cretaceous dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Horner, John R ^a   Goodwin, Mark B ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL SUTURE; DINOSAUR; DRACOREX HOGWARTSIA; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PACHYCEPHALOSAURUS WYOMINGENSIS; SKULL; STYGIMOLOCH SPINIFER; TAXONOMY; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CERATOPSIDAE; DINOSAURIA; HADROSAURIDAE; PACHYCEPHALOSAURIDAE; PACHYCEPHALOSAURUS WYOMINGENSIS; STYGIMOLOCH SPINIFER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; PALEONTOLOGY; SKULL;

EID: 70449578909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007626     Document Type: Article

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