Cranial growth and variation in edmontosaurs (dinosauria: Hadrosauridae): Implications for latest cretaceous megaherbivore diversity in North America

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Campione, Nicolás E ^a   Evans, David C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANATOSAURUS EDMONTONI; ANATOTITAN COPEI; ARTICLE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EDMONTOSAUR; EDMONTOSAURUS ANNECTENS; EDMONTOSAURUS REGALIS; EDMONTOSAURUS SASKATCHEWANENSIS; END CRETACEOUS MASS EXTINCTION; FOSSIL ANIMAL; HERBIVORE; MAASTRICHTIAN; MEGAHERBIVORE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; ONTOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKULL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; THESPESIUS EDMONTONI; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TIME;

CERATOPSIDAE; DINOSAURIA; HADROSAURIDAE; ORNITHOPODA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLASSIFICATION; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; NORTH AMERICA; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80053236622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025186     Document Type: Article

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