Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, a new hadrosauroid dinosaur (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the santonian (late cretaceous) of michoacán, Mexico

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 379-395

  Ramírez Velasco, Angel Alejandro ^a   Benammi, Mouloud ^a   Prieto Márquez, Albert ^b   Ortega, Jesús Alvarado ^a   Hernández Rivera, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b BAYERISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG FÜR PALÄONTOLOGIE UND GEOLOGIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADISTIC ANALYSIS; LATE CRETACEOUS; MAXIMUM PARSIMONY; ME-XICO; MOST RECENT COMMON ANCESTORS;

EARTH SCIENCES;

CLADISTICS; COMMON ANCESTRY; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; SANTONIAN; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TAXONOMY; TOOTH; VICARIANCE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MICHOACAN;

DINOSAURIA; HADROSAURIDAE; HADROSAUROIDEA; ORNITHISCHIA; ORNITHOPODA;

EID: 84856860460     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: 14803313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E11-062     Document Type: Article

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