Bone histology indicates insular dwarfism in a new Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur

Citation

Sander, P. M.; Mateus, O.; Laven, T.; Knötschke, N. (2006). Bone histology indicates insular dwarfism in a new Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur. Nature 441: 739-741. doi:10.1038/nature04633

Names first published here

• Europasaurus genus
• Europasaurus holgeri species

Cited by genera

• Europasaurus

Cited by clades

• Brachiosauridae

  Described Europasaurus as a basal macronarian and showed from bone histology that it was an island dwarf.