Age constraints on the dispersal of dinosaurs in the late triassic from magnetochronology of the los colorados formation (Argentina)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 7958-7963

  Kent, Dennis V ^a,b   Malnis, Paula Santi ^c,d   Colombi, Carina E ^c,d   Alcober, Oscar A ^d   Martínez, Ricardo N ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN JUAN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Adamanian; La esquina; Magnetostratigraphy; Paleolatitude

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CARNIAN; DINOSAUR; END TRIASSIC MASS EXTINCTION; FAUNA; FLOODPLAIN; GEOLOGICAL TIME; JURASSIC; LOWER JURASSIC; MESOZOIC; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; NORIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; STRATIGRAPHY; TETRAPOD; UPPER TRIASSIC;

ADAMANIAN; LA ESQUINA; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOLATITUDE;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; ARGON; CHRONOLOGY AS TOPIC; CLIMATE; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MAGNETICS; PALEONTOLOGY; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

EID: 84901819854     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1402369111     Document Type: Article

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