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ArticlePeerJ2017

The earliest known titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur and the evolution of Brachiosauridae.

Philip D Mannion, Ronan Allain, Olivier Moine

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Article in PeerJ, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. A nearly complete skull of the sauropod dinosaurRoyal Society open science · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Philip D MannionDepartment of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Ronan AllainCentre de Recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
Olivier MoineLaboratoire de Géographie Physique: Environnements Quaternaires et Actuels, CNRS/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/UPEC, Paris, France.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brachiosauridae is a clade of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs that includes the well-known Late Jurassic taxa

Indexed as

BiogeographyBrachiosauridaeCharacter correlationCretaceousFranceGondwanaLate JurassicLaurasiaMesozoicOntogenyOxfordianSacral fusion

Identifiers

PMID28480136
PMCPMC5417094

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