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Giant Hadrosaurs

Source info:

Author:
Date: 2016-05-06 14:50:50
Blog: Dinosaur Home - Blogs
URL: http://www.dinosaurhome.com/giant-hadrosaurs-1907.html

Summary:

In most LK habitats of the northern hemisphere, hadrosaurs were the predominant herbivores. Inasmuch as their success was due to high sea levels, which favored smaller taxa over sauropods, they tended to be of modest size. Toward the end of the Cretaceous, however, some hadrosaurs became enormous. In Asia and America, the late Campanian saw the [...]

Content analysis:

Stratigraphic context:

Recognized stratigraphic terms [n]:Cretaceous [1]
Campanian [1]
Agenames chronostratigraphy [rating]:Cretaceous [0.5]
Mesozoic [0.5]
Phanerozoic [0.5]
Campanian [0.1]
Upper Cretaceous [0.1]

Geographic context:

LocationCountryLatitudeLongitude
Asia34.969799.8191
United StatesUS37.1679-95.845

Keywords:

Asia, Cretaceous, end, From the BlogSphere, Giant Hadrosaurs, high sea levels, late Campanian, LK habitats, modest size, northern hemisphere, predominant herbivores, sauropods, smaller taxa, success

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