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SUBMITTER: Mallon JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3707905 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mallon Jordan C JC Anderson Jason S JS
PloS one 20130710 7
Megaherbivorous dinosaur coexistence on the Late Cretaceous island continent of Laramidia has long puzzled researchers, owing to the mystery of how so many large herbivores (6-8 sympatric species, in many instances) could coexist on such a small (4-7 million km(2)) landmass. Various explanations have been put forth, one of which-dietary niche partitioning-forms the focus of this study. Here, we apply traditional morphometric methods to the skulls of megaherbivorous dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Pa ...[more]