A partial titanosaur (Sauropoda, Dinosauria) skeleton from the Maastrichtian of Nǎlaţ-Vad, Haţ eg Basin, Romania

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 258, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 297-324

  Csiki, Zoltán ^a   Codrea, Vlád ^b   Jipa Murzea, Cǎtǎlin ^b   Godefroit, Pascal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ha eg basin; Late cretaceous; Magyarosaurus; Paludititan; Romania; Titanosauria

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BONE; CLADISTICS; DINOSAUR; MAASTRICHTIAN; SKELETAL REMAINS; TAXONOMY;

ROMANIA;

DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA; TITANOSAURIA;

EID: 78651072155     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0098     Document Type: Article

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