Dinosaurs, dung beetles, and conifers: Participants in a Cretaceous food web

Palaios

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 280-285

  Chin, Kaken ^a   Gill, Bruce D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFER; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; DUNG BEETLE; FAECES; INSECT; PALAEOECOLOGY; PARACOPRID;

USA, MONTANA;

COLEOPTERA; CONIFEROPHYTA; DINOSAURIA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030423755     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515235     Document Type: Article

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