Dinosaur morphological diversity and the end-Cretaceous extinction

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Brusatte, Stephen L ^a,b   Butler, Richard J ^c,d   Prieto Márquez, Albert ^d   Norell, Mark A ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d BAYERISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG FÜR PALÄONTOLOGIE UND GEOLOGIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HERBIVORE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; SAMPLE SIZE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HERBIVORY; HISTOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AVES; CERATOPSIDAE; DINOSAURIA; HADROSAUROIDEA;

AMERICAS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DINOSAURS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; HERBIVORY; PALEONTOLOGY;

EID: 84860493613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1815     Document Type: Article

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