A remarkable short-snouted horned dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (late Campanian) of southern Laramidia

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1766, 2013, Pages

  Sampson, Scott D ^a,b,c   Lund, Eric K ^b,c,d   Loewen, Mark A ^b,c   Farke, Andrew A ^e   Clayton, Katherine E ^c  

^a DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Centrosaurinae; Ceratopsidae; Dinosauria; Kaiparowits Formation; Laramidia; Nasutoceratops titusi

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FLOODING; FOSSIL RECORD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NEW TAXON; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; SKELETON; TYPE SPECIMEN;

KAIPAROWITS PLATEAU; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; UTAH;

EID: 84894453542     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1186     Document Type: Article

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