New remains attributable to the holotype of the Sauropod Dinosaur neuquensaurus australis, with implications for saltasaurine systematics

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-73

  D'Emic, Michael D ^a   Wilson, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Dinosauria; Neuquensaurus; Saltasaurus; Sauropoda; South America; taxonomy; Titanosauria

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIOMETRY; COEXISTENCE; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; SKELETAL REMAINS; SKELETON; TAXONOMY;

DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA; TITANOSAURIA;

EID: 79952795377     PISSN: 05677920     EISSN: 17322421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4202/app.2009.0149     Document Type: Article

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