Skull Ecomorphology of Megaherbivorous Dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada

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Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Mallon, Jordan C ^a,b   Anderson, Jason S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYLOSAUR; ARTICLE; CANADA; CERATOPSID; CLADISTICS; DINOSAUR; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOMORPHOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HADROSAURID; HERBIVORE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; SKULL; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; STRATIGRAPHY; SYMPATRY; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALBERTA; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CANADA; DINOSAURS; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; HERBIVORY; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

ANIMALIA; CERATOPSIDAE; DINOSAURIA; HADROSAURIDAE;

EID: 84880014673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067182     Document Type: Article

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