Discovery of the holotype of the giant pterosaur Titanopteryx philadelphiae Arambourg 1959, and the status of Arambourgiania and Quetzalcoatlus

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-76

  Martill, David M ^a   Frey, Eberhard ^b   Sadaqah, Rushdie M ^c   Khoury, Hani N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Staatliches Mus Naturkunde K   (Germany)

^c Jordan Phosphate Mines Company   (Jordan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPH; REPTILE; TAXONOMY;

AMMAN; JORDAN;

AZHDARCHIDAE; DINOSAURIA; INVERTEBRATA; QUETZALCOATLUS;

EID: 0002743412     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/207/1998/57     Document Type: Article

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