Sauropod dinosaur osteoderms from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Rogers, Kristina Curry ^a   D'Emic, Michael ^b   Rogers, Raymond ^a   Vickaryous, Matthew ^c   Cagan, Amanda ^a  

^a MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE; BONE STRUCTURE; DINOSAUR; INTEGUMENT; MADAGASCAR; NONHUMAN; OSTEODERM; RAPETOSAURUS; RAPETOSAURUS KRAUSEI; TAPHONOMY; UPPER CRETACEOUS; ANIMAL; FOSSIL;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; MADAGASCAR;

EID: 82555196647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1578     Document Type: Article

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