Dispersal and diversity in the earliest North American sauropodomorph dinosaurs, with a description of a new Taxon

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1708, 2011, Pages 1044-1053

  Rowe, Timothy B ^a,b   Sues, Hans Dieter ^c   Reisz, Robert R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dinosauria; Dispersal; Extinction; Phylogeny; Sauropodomorpha; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; FOSSIL RECORD; JURASSIC; NEW TAXON; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TRIASSIC; VERTEBRATE;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BONE; CLASSIFICATION; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARIZONA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BONE AND BONES; DINOSAURS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY;

EID: 79958278332     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1867     Document Type: Article

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