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Mountain Building Triggered Late Cretaceous North American Megaherbivore Dinosaur Radiation

Prior studies of Mesozoic biodiversity document a diversity peak for dinosaur species in the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, yet have failed to provide explicit causal mechanisms. We provide evidence that a marked increase in North American dinosaur biodiversity can be attributed to dynamic...

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Autores principales: Gates, Terry A., Prieto-Márquez, Albert, Zanno, Lindsay E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3410882/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22876302
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042135