Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 98-206

  Mannion, Philip D ^a,b   Upchurch, Paul ^c   Barnes, Rosie N ^c   Mateus, Octávio ^d,e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^e Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinha   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Continuous data; Cretaceous; Gondwana; Implied weighting; Laurasia; Lourinh ; Mamenchisauridae; Mesozoic; Phylogeny; Pneumaticity; Titanosauria

Indexed keywords

BRACHIOSAURIDAE; DINOSAURIA; DIPLODOCIDAE; EUHELOPODIDAE; MACRONARIA; MAMENCHISAURUS; SAUROPODA; TITANOSAURIA; TITANOSAURIFORMES;

EID: 84876784309     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12029     Document Type: Article

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