A reassessment of Mongolosaurus haplodon Gilmore, 1933, a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 355-378

  Mannion, Philip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asia; Convergent evolution; Mesozoic; Mongolosaurus; Phylogeny; Systematics

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY; TOOTH;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA; TITANOSAURIA; TITANOSAURIFORMES;

EID: 80051849755     PISSN: 14772019     EISSN: 14780941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2010.527379     Document Type: Article

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