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A new long-spined dinosaur from Patagonia sheds light on sauropod defense system

Dicraeosaurids are a group of sauropod dinosaurs characterized by a distinctive vertebral column with paired, long, neural spines, present in an extreme fashion in the South American form Amargasaurus cazaui. This distinctive morphology has been interpreted as a support structure for a thermoregulat...

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Autores principales: Gallina, Pablo A., Apesteguía, Sebastián, Canale, Juan I., Haluza, Alejandro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6362061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30718633
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37943-3