New dinosaur species from the Upper Triassic Upper Maleri and Lower Dharmaram formations of Central India

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Volumn 101, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 333-349

  Novas, Fernando E ^a,b   Ezcurra, Martin D ^a   Chatterjee, Sankar ^c   Kutty, T S ^d  

^a MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

^b CONICET ^*  (Argentina)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Archosauria; Gondwana; macroevolution; phylogeny; Sauropodomorpha

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DINOSAUR; FAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GONDWANA; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY; TRIASSIC;

CENTRAL AFRICA; INDIA;

ARCHOSAURIA; DINOSAURIA; OXYSTOMINA; SAUROPODOMORPHA;

EID: 79959461114     PISSN: 17556910     EISSN: 17556929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755691011020093     Document Type: Article

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