Cranial anatomy and systematics of Hypacrosaurus altispinus, and a comparative analysis of skull growth in lambeosaurine hadrosaurids (Dinosauria: Ornithischia)

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 398-434

  Evans, David C ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Biostratigraphy; Evolution; Late Cretaceous; Morphology; Ornithopoda; Phylogenetic systematics

Indexed keywords

DINOSAURIA; HADROSAURIDAE; HYPACROSAURUS; ORNITHISCHIA; ORNITHOPODA;

EID: 77954163389     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00611.x     Document Type: Article

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