Angolatitan adamastor, a new sauropod dinosaur and the first record from Angola

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 221-233

  Mateus, Octávio ^a,b   Jacobs, Louis L ^c   Schulp, Anne S ^d   Polcyn, Michael J ^c   Tavares, Tatiana S ^e   Neto, André Buta ^e   Morais, Maria Luísa ^e   Antunes, Miguel T ^f  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinha   (Portugal)

^c SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Natuurhisch Museum Maastricht   (Netherlands)

^e Universidade Agostinho Neto   (Angola)

^f Academia de Ciências de Lisboa   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Angola; Angolatitan; Cretaceous; Dinosaurs; Sauropoda; Turonian

Indexed keywords

ANGOLA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE; CLASSIFICATION; DINOSAUR; FORELIMB; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

ANGOLA; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; DINOSAURS; FORELIMB; FOSSILS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

ADAMASTOR; DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA; TITANOSAURIA;

EID: 79953167877     PISSN: 00013765     EISSN: 16782690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0001-37652011000100012     Document Type: Article

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