The origin and early evolution of dinosaurs

Biological Reviews

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-110

  Langer, Max C ^a   Ezcurra, Martin D ^b   Bittencourt, Jonathas S ^a   Novas, Fernando E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Dinosauria; Dinosauromorpha; Evolution; Herrerasauria; Phylogeny; Triassic

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL;

AGNOSPHITYS CROMHALLENSIS; AVES; DINOSAURIA; DINOSAUROMORPHA; ORNITHISCHIA; SATURNALIA TUPINIQUIM; SAURISCHIA; SAUROPODOMORPHA; TETRAPODA; THEROPODA; TRICERATOPS;

EID: 74549219796     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00094.x     Document Type: Article

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