On the origin of flight in Archaeopteryx and in pterosaurs

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 269-285

  Ebel, Klaus ^a  

^a NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE; DINOSAUR; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; HUNTING; REPTILE;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; RHAMPHORHYNCHOIDEA;

EID: 0012304872     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/202/1996/269     Document Type: Article

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