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| Title |
Skull Ecomorphology of Megaherbivorous Dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, July 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0067182 |
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| Authors |
Jordan C. Mallon, Jason S. Anderson |
| Abstract |
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 Park Formation (upper Campanian) of Alberta to infer the ecomorphology of these animals and to test the niche partitioning hypothesis. We find evidence for niche partitioning not only among contemporaneous ankylosaurs, ceratopsids, and hadrosaurids, but also within these clades at the family and subfamily levels. Consubfamilial ceratopsids and hadrosaurids differ insignificantly in their inferred ecomorphologies, which may explain why they rarely overlap stratigraphically: interspecific competition prevented their coexistence. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 37 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 7 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 16% |
| United States | 4 | 11% |
| Japan | 2 | 5% |
| Brazil | 2 | 5% |
| Argentina | 1 | 3% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 3% |
| Singapore | 1 | 3% |
| Greece | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 11 | 30% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 28 | 76% |
| Scientists | 8 | 22% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 78 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 21% |
| Researcher | 15 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 11% |
| Other | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 11 | 13% |
| Unknown | 13 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 30 | 37% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 28 | 34% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 4% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 2 | 2% |
| Unknown | 14 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 92. 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 09 April 2024.
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