Tyrant dinosaur evolution tracks the rise and fall of Late Cretaceous oceans.

The Late Cretaceous (∼95-66 million years ago) western North American landmass of Laramidia displayed heightened non-marine vertebrate diversity and intracontinental regionalism relative to other latest Cretaceous Laurasian ecosystems. Processes generating these patterns during this interval remain...

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Main Authors: Mark A Loewen, Randall B Irmis, Joseph J W Sertich, Philip J Currie, Scott D Sampson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3819173?pdf=render