First spinosaurid dinosaur from Australia and the cosmopolitanism of Cretaceous dinosaur faunas.
A cervical vertebra from the Early Cretaceous of Victoria represents the first Australian spinosaurid theropod dinosaur. This discovery significantly extends the geographical range of spinosaurids, suggesting that the clade obtained a near-global distribution before the onset of Pangaean fragmentati...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2011
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