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| Title |
The last dicynodont: an Australian Cretaceous relict
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, May 2003
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| DOI | 10.1098/rspb.2002.2296 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tony Thulborn, Susan Turner |
| Abstract |
Some long-forgotten fossil evidence reveals that a dicynodont (mammal-like reptile of the infraorder Dicynodontia) inhabited Australia as recently as the Early Cretaceous, ca. 110 Myr after the supposed extinction of dicynodonts in the Late Triassic. This remarkably late occurrence more than doubles the known duration of dicynodont history (from ca. 63 Myr to ca. 170 Myr) and betrays the profound impact of geographical isolation on Australian terrestrial faunas through the Mesozoic. Australia's late-surviving dicynodont may be envisaged as a counterpart of the ceratopians (horned dinosaurs) in Cretaceous tetrapod faunas of Asia and North America. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 4 | 29% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |
| Portugal | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 8 | 57% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 79% |
| Scientists | 3 | 21% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 92 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 5% |
| Brazil | 3 | 3% |
| Portugal | 1 | 1% |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| Romania | 1 | 1% |
| Czechia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 79 | 86% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 25% |
| Researcher | 20 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 14 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 16 | 17% |
| Unknown | 6 | 7% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 39 | 42% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 35 | 38% |
| Environmental Science | 6 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 2% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 2 | 2% |
| Unknown | 7 | 8% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 January 2024.
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