New basal iguanodonts from the cedar mountain formation of utah and the evolution of thumb-spiked dinosaurs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  McDonald, Andrew T ^a   Kirkland, James I ^b   DeBlieux, Donald D ^b   Madsen, Scott K ^b   Cavin, Jennifer ^c   Milner, Andrew R C ^d   Panzarin, Lukas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c John Day Fossil Beds National Monument   (United States)

^d St George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm   (United States)

^e Naturalist Illustrator   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; CEDRORESTES CRICHTONI; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DINOSAUR; GENUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIPPODRACO SCUTODEN; IGUANACOLOSSUS FORTIS; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SKELETON; SKULL; TAXONOMY; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ASIA; BIODIVERSITY; BONE; CLASSIFICATION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; IGUANODONTIA;

ANIMALS; ASIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BONE AND BONES; DINOSAURS; EUROPE; FOSSILS; SKELETON; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; UTAH;

EID: 78649606656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014075     Document Type: Article

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