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Untangling the dinosaur family tree

Max C. Langer, Martín D. Ezcurra, Oliver W. M. Rauhut, Michael J. Benton, Fabien Knoll, Blair W. McPhee, Fernando E. Novas, Diego Pol & Stephen L. Brusatte

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Nature 551, E1–E3 (02 November 2017) doi: 10.1038/nature24011 

Received 16 May 2017 Accepted 26 June 2017 Published online 01 November 2017

Article (March, 2017)

Brief Communication Arising (November, 2017)

Two possible branches of the dinosaur family tree (left and middle).

Credit: Max Langer



For over a century, the standard classification scheme has split dinosaurs into two fundamental groups1: ‘lizard-hipped’ saurischians (including meat-eating theropods and long-necked sauropodomorphs) and ‘bird-hipped’ ornithischians (including a variety of herbivorous species)2, 3, 4. In a recent paper, Baron…

Subject terms: Palaeontology

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