An aberrant island-dwelling theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 35, 2010, Pages 15357-15361

  Csiki, Zoltán ^a   Vremir, Mátyás ^b   Brusatte, Stephen L ^c,d   Norell, Mark A ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b Transylvanian Museum Association   (Romania)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Dromaeosauridae; Endemic; Europe; Island fauna; Theropoda

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FAUNA; FEMUR; FOSSIL; HAND; HERBIVORE; HINDLIMB; HOOF AND CLAW; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MAASTRICHTIAN; MUSCLE; PALEONTOLOGY; PREDATOR; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMANIA; SKELETON; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ASIA; BONE AND BONES; DINOSAURS; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HINDLIMB; PHYLOGENY; ROMANIA; SPINE;

DINOSAURIA; DROMAEOSAURIDAE; THEROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77957272855     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006970107     Document Type: Article

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