Crocodyliform Feeding Traces on Juvenile Ornithischian Dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Kaiparowits Formation, Utah

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Boyd, Clint A ^a   Drumheller, Stephanie K ^b,c   Gates, Terry A ^d,e  

^a South Dakota School of Mines Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BITE; CAMPANIAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROCODILIAN; DINOSAUR; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; JUVENILE ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; ORNITHISCHIAN DINOSAUR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; PUNCTURE; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; UNITED STATES;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMUR; FOSSILS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SCAPULA; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTAH;

EID: 84874535367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057605     Document Type: Article

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