A new basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the lower Jurassic Navajo sandstone of southern Utah

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Sertich, Joseph J W ^a   Loewen, Mark A ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PELVIS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DINOSAURS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; PELVIS; PHYLOGENY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTAH;

EID: 77953709952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009789     Document Type: Article

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