Biogeography of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrates from the late Cretaceous (Campanian) Western Interior of North America

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 291, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 371-387

  Gates, T A ^a,b,c   Sampson, S D ^b   Zanno, L E ^c   Roberts, E M ^d   Eaton, J G ^e   Nydam, R L ^f   Hutchison, J H ^g   Smith, J A ^b   Loewen, M A ^b   Getty, M A ^b  

^a LAKE FOREST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Dinosaurs; Multivariate statistics; Paleoecology; Similarity index; Western Interior Basin

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOME; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMPANIAN; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DINOSAUR; ENDEMISM; FOSSIL RECORD; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; PALEOECOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; SIMILARITY INDEX;

WESTERN INTERIOR;

DINOSAURIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77958505791     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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