A multi-disciplinary perspective on habitat preferences among dinosaurs in a Cretaceous Arctic greenhouse world, North Slope, Alaska (Prince Creek Formation: lower Maastrichtian)
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- 作者：Anthony R. Fiorilloa ; Anthony.fiorillo@perotmuseum.org" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Paul J. McCarthyb ; Peter P. Flaigc
- 关键词：Theropoda ; Ceratopsidae ; Hadrosauridae ; paleosols ; High-latitude ecosystems ; Ancient Arctic
- 刊名：Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：1 January 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：441
- 期：part_P2
- 页码：377-389
- 全文大小：1575 K
文摘
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Our study offers insight into the habitat preferences for polar dinosaurs.
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Alaskan hadrosaur-dominated bonebeds are from wetter lowland delta plain facies.
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Alaskan ceratopsian-dominated bonebed from upland coastal plain facies.
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Result of adaptation to the seasonality provided by polar terrestrial ecosystems.
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In contrast, the tyrannosaurid seems to have had a more ubiquitous distribution.