Oxygen isotope evidence for semi-aquatic habits among spinosaurid theropods

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 139-142

  Amiot, Romain ^a,c   Buffetaut, Eric ^b   Lécuyer, Christophe ^c,k   Wang, Xu ^d   Boudad, Larbi ^e   Ding, Zhongli ^d   Fourel, François ^c   Hutt, Steven ^f   Martineau, François ^c   Medeiros, Manuel Alfredo ^g   Mo, Jinyou ^h,l   Simon, Laurent ^c   Suteethorn, Varavudh ⁱ   Sweetman, Steven ^j   Tong, Haiyan ^b   Zhang, Fusong ^d   Zhou, Zhonghe ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e MOULAY ISMAIL UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^f Culver Parade   (United Kingdom)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MARANHÃO   (Brazil)

^h CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

ⁱ Department of Mineral Resources ^*  (Thailand)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^k INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^l Natural History Museum of Guangxi   (China)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE PARTS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; POSTCRANIAL SKELETON;

BIOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN;

DENTISTRY;

BIOLOGY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CRANIUM; DINOSAUR; FOOD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MORPHOLOGY; NICHE PARTITIONING; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; TERRITORY; TOOTH;

CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); DINOSAURIA; HIPPOPOTAMIDAE; TESTUDINES; THEROPODA; TYRANNOSAURIDAE;

EID: 77950237100     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30402.1     Document Type: Article

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