Titanoceratops ouranos, a giant horned dinosaur from the late Campanian of New Mexico

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 264-276

  Longrich, Nicholas R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Ceratopsidae; Chasmosaurinae; Cretaceous; Dinosauria

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CAMPANIAN; CLADISTICS; DINOSAUR; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY; TYPE SPECIMEN;

NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CERATOPSIDAE; DINOSAURIA; PENTACERATOPS; PENTACERATOPS STERNBERGI; TRICERATOPS;

EID: 79952317291     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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