A complete skull of an early cretaceous sauropod and the evolution of advanced titanosaurians

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Zaher, Hussam ^a   Pol, Diego ^b   Carvalho, Alberto B ^a   Nascimento, Paulo M ^a   Riccomini, Claudio ^a   Larson, Peter ^c,d   Juarez Valieri, Rubén ^e   Pires Domingues, Ricardo ^a   da Silva Jr , Nelson Jorge ^f   de Almeida Campos, Diógenes ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MUSEO PALEONTOLÓGICO EGIDIO FERUGLIO   (Argentina)

^c Black Hills Institute of Geological Research Inc Hill City   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e Museo Patagonico de Ciencias Naturales   (Argentina)

^f PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^g Museu de Ciencias da Terra   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BONE AGE; BONE STRUCTURE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SAUROPOD; SKULL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; AGE DETERMINATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CRANIAL SUTURE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY;

DINOSAURIA; DIPLODOCIDAE; NEMEGTOSAURIDAE; SALTASAURIDAE; SAUROPODA; TITANOSAURIA;

AGE DETERMINATION BY TEETH; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAZIL; CRANIAL SUTURES; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

EID: 79951541649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016663     Document Type: Article

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