Texacephale langstoni, a new genus of pachycephalosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the upper Campanian Aguja Formation, southern Texas, USA

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 274-284

  Longrich, Nicholas R ^a   Sankey, Julia ^b   Tanke, Darren ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Dinosaur; Marginocephalia; Ornithischia; Pachycephalosauridae

Indexed keywords

CAMPANIAN; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENETICS; SKULL; TAXONOMY;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

DINOSAURIA; ORNITHISCHIA; PACHYCEPHALOSAURIDAE;

EID: 75849145016     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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