New horned dinosaurs from Utah provide evidence for intracontinental dinosaur endemism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Sampson, Scott D ^a   Loewen, Mark A ^a   Farke, Andrew A ^b   Roberts, Eric M ^c   Forster, Catherine A ^d   Smith, Joshua A ^a   Titus, Alan L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Raymond M Alf Museum of Paleontology   (United States)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Bureau of Land Management   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SISTER GROUP; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; STRATIGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; PALEONTOLOGY;

CERATOPSIDAE; DINOSAURIA; PENTACERATOPS; TRICERATOPS;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; NORTH AMERICA; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; UTAH;

EID: 77958495539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012292     Document Type: Article

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