A Late Cretaceous polar dinosaur fauna from New Zealand

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 689-706

  Molnar, R E ^a   Wiffen, J ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Campanian; Dinosaurs; Insular palaeofauna; New Zealand; Palaeozoogeography; Polar palaeofauna; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

CAMPANIAN; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; POLAR ENVIRONMENT; THERMOREGULATION;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0028597254     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1994.1038     Document Type: Article

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