First ceratosaurian dinosaur from Australia

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 397-405

  Fitzgerald, Erich M G ^a,b   Carrano, Matthew T ^b   Holland, Timothy ^a,c   Wagstaff, Barbara E ^d   Pickering, David ^a   Rich, Thomas H ^a,c   Vickers Rich, Patricia ^a,c  

^a MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abelisauroidea; Ceratosauria; Cretaceous; Dinosauria; Gondwana; Theropoda

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CLADISTICS; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GONDWANA; NEW RECORD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; VICTORIA;

AUSTRALIA;

CERATOSAURIA; DEINONYCHOSAURIA; DINOSAURIA; THEROPODA; TYRANNOSAUROIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84863722278     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-012-0915-3     Document Type: Article

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