The end of the sauropod dinosaur hiatus in North America

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 297, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 486-490

  D'Emic, Michael D ^a   Wilson, Jeffrey A ^a   Thompson, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Alamosaurus; Biogeography; Cretaceous; Dinosaur; Hadrosaur; Sauropod; Titanosaur

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; JURASSIC; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

NORTH AMERICA;

ALAMOSAURUS; CERATOPSIA; DINOSAURIA; HADROSAURIDAE; ORNITHISCHIA; PACHYCEPHALOSAURIDAE; SAUROPODA; THEROPODA;

EID: 77957750793     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.08.032     Document Type: Article

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