A new troodontid theropod, talos sampsoni gen. et sp. nov., from the upper cretaceous western interior basin of North America

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Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Zanno, Lindsay E ^a,b   Varricchio, David J ^c   O'Connor, Patrick M ^d,e   Titus, Alan L ^f   Knell, Michael J ^c  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Bureau of Land Management   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BONE AGE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOSAUR; FEMUR; FIBULA; FORELIMB; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GRYPOSAURUS MONUMENTENSIS; HAGRYPHUS; HEEL; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; KOSMOCERATOPS; METATARSAL BONE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PELVIS; PHALANX; PHYLOGENY; SKELETON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TALOS SAMPSONI; TAXONOMY; TERATOPHONEUS; TIBIA; UTAHCERATOPS; ANIMAL; BONE; CLASSIFICATION; PALEONTOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

CERATOPSIDAE; DEINONYCHOSAURIA; DINOSAURIA; OVIRAPTOROSAURIA; SAURORNITHOIDES; THEROPODA; TROODON; TROODON FORMOSUS; TROODONTIDAE; TYRANNOSAURIDAE;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; DINOSAURS; NORTH AMERICA; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80052889470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024487     Document Type: Article

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