Four-toed theropod footprints and a paleomagnetic age from the Whetstone Falls Member of the Harebell Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Maastrichtian), northwestern Wyoming

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 381-401

  Harris, J D ^a,d   Johnson, K R ^a   Hicks, J ^b   Tauxe, L ^c,e  

^a Denver Museum Natural History   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Exallopus; Harebell Formation; Ichnology; Maastrichtian; Magnetostratigraphy; Theropod; Whetstone Falls Member; Wyoming

Indexed keywords

CAMPANULA ROTUNDIFOLIA; DINOSAURIA; EXALLOPUS; SAURISCHIA; THEROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR FOOTPRINT; EXALLOPUS LOVEI; HAREBELL FORMATION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; THEROPOD;

USA, WYOMING;

EID: 0030478759     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1996.0024     Document Type: Article

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