On the discovery of an oviraptorid skeleton on a nest of eggs at Bayan Mandahu, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 631-636

  Dong, Zhi Ming ^a   Currie, Philip J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOUR; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EGG; OVIRAPTOR; THEROPOD;

CHINA, INNER MONGOLIA, BAYAN MANDAHU;

EID: 0029749914     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e96-046     Document Type: Article

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