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Extreme Cranial Ontogeny in the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus

BACKGROUND: Extended neoteny and late stage allometric growth increase morphological disparity between growth stages in at least some dinosaurs. Coupled with relatively low dinosaur density in the Upper Cretaceous of North America, ontogenetic transformational representatives are often difficult to...

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Autores principales: Horner, John R., Goodwin, Mark B.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2762616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19859556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007626