Structural extremes in a cretaceous dinosaur.
Fossils of the Early Cretaceous dinosaur, Nigersaurus taqueti, document for the first time the cranial anatomy of a rebbachisaurid sauropod. Its extreme adaptations for herbivory at ground-level challenge current hypotheses regarding feeding function and feeding strategy among diplodocoids, the larg...
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| Main Authors: | Paul C Sereno, Jeffrey A Wilson, Lawrence M Witmer, John A Whitlock, Abdoulaye Maga, Oumarou Ide, Timothy A Rowe |
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | EN |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2007
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| Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/25a20268531d4e4aa3385a99183569eb |
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