New insights into dinosaur jaw muscle anatomy

Anatomical Record

Volumn 292, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1246-1265

  Holliday, Casey M ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Dinosaur; Functional morphology; Jaw muscles

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; DINOSAUR; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; JAW MUSCLE; MANDIBLE; MASTICATORY MUSCLE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; JAW; LIZARDS; MASTICATION; MASTICATORY MUSCLES; PALEONTOLOGY; SKULL;

AVES; CERATOPSIDAE; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); DINOSAURIA; LEPIDOSAURIA; ORNITHOPODA; SAUROPODA; SAUROPSIDA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 73249148074     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20982     Document Type: Article

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