The precise temporal calibration of dinosaur origins

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

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 509-513

  Marsicano, Claudia A ^a   Irmis, Randall B ^b,c   Mancuso, Adriana C ^d   Mundil, Roland ^e   Chemale, Farid ^f  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE NIVOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^e BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Cha ares formation; Dinosaur origins; Geochronology; Triassic

Indexed keywords

ZIRCONIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARNIAN; CHEMICAL ABRASION THERMAL IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; DINOSAUR; END PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION; EVOLUTION; LATITUDE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE TRIASSIC; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TRIASSIC; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; CALIBRATION; GEOGRAPHY; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CALIBRATION; DINOSAURS; GEOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84955080294     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1512541112     Document Type: Article

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