The internal cranial morphology of an armoured dinosaur Euoplocephalus corroborated by X-ray computed tomographic reconstruction

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 219, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 661-675

  Miyashita, Tetsuto ^a   Arbour, Victoria M ^a   Witmer, Lawrence M ^b   Currie, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ankylosauridae; Braincase; Dinosaur Park Formation; Nasal cavity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; DINOSAUR; EUOPLOCEPHALUS TUTUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; NOSE MUCOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NASAL CAVITY; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

ANKYLOSAURIDAE; DINOSAURIA;

EID: 81255144655     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2011.01427.x     Document Type: Article

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