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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-11-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001230