Bizarre tail weaponry in a transitional ankylosaur from subantarctic Chile

Armoured dinosaurs are well known for their evolution of specialized tail weapons— paired tail spikes in stegosaurs and heavy tail clubs in advanced ankylosaurs1 . Armoured dinosaurs from southern Gondwana are rare and enigmatic, but probably include the earliest branches of Ankylosauria2–4 . Here w...

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Published in:Nature
Main Authors: Soto Acuña, Sergio, Vargas, Alexander O., Kaluza, Jonatan Ezequiel, Leppe, Marcelo A., Botelho, Joao F., Palma Liberona, José, Gutstein, Carolina Simon, Fernández, Roy A., Ortiz, Héctor, Milla, Verónica, Aravena, Bárbara, Manríquez, Leslie M. E., Alarcón Muñoz, Jhonatan, Pino, Juan Pablo, Trevisan, Cristine, Mansilla, Héctor Sebastian, Hinojosa, Luis Felipe, Muñoz Walther, Vicente, Rubilar Rogers, David
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:
PALEONTOLOGIA
ANKILOSAURIO
CRETACICO
GONDWANA
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.7
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
Argentina
Magallanes
Acuña
Antarc*
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/155205

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