A new basal sauropodomorph (dinosauria: Saurischia) from Quebrada del Barro formation (Marayes-El carrizal basin), Northwestern Argentina

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Apaldetti, Cecilia ^a,b   Martinez, Ricardo N ^a   Alcober, Oscar A ^a   Pol, Diego ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN JUAN   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c MUSEO PALEONTOLÓGICO EGIDIO FERUGLIO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; CERVICAL SPINE; DINOSAUR; HINDLIMB; LEYESAURUS MARAYENSIS; MAXILLA; METATARSAL BONE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PELVIC GIRDLE; PHYLOGENY; SCAPULA; SKULL; SPINE; TAXON; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS;

DINOSAURIA; SAURISCHIA; SAUROPODOMORPHA;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; DINOSAURS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 80655128561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026964     Document Type: Article

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