The variability of inner ear orientation in saurischian dinosaurs: Testing the use of semicircular canals as a reference system for comparative anatomy

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Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Marugán Lobón, Jesús ^a,b   Chiappe, Luis M ^b   Farke, Andrew A ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

^c Raymond M Alf Museum of Paleontology   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Dinosaurs; Geometric morphometrics; Inner ear; Reference system; Saurischia; Skull

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; DINOSAUR; INNER EAR; NONHUMAN; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SKULL;

EID: 84885125302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.124     Document Type: Article

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