Late Triassic dinosaurs from the western United States

Geobios

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 511-531

  Hunt, Adrian P ^a   Lucas, Spencer G ^a   Heckert, Andrew B ^a   Sullivan, Robert M ^a   Lockley, Martin G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Dinosaurs; Diversity; Late triassic; Western United States

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DINOSAUR; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; TRIASSIC;

(WEST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032464607     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(98)80123-X     Document Type: Article

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