The skull of a relative of the stem-group bird Mononykus

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6673, 1998, Pages 275-278

  Chlappe, Luis M ^a   Norell, Mark A ^a   Clark, James M ^b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CRETACEOUS; MONONYKUS;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; JAW; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MONGOLIA, GOBI DESERT;

EID: 0032546355     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/32642     Document Type: Article

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