Postcranial pneumatization in Archaeopteryx

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6700, 1998, Pages 374-376

  Britt, Brooks B ^a   Makovicky, Peter J ^b   Gauthier, Jacques ^c   Bonde, Niels ^d  

^a Museum of Western Colorado   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR;

AERATION; ARTICLE; BIRD; FOSSIL; LONG BONE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; VERTEBRA;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; ARCHAEOPTERYX LITHOGRAPHICA;

EID: 0032563788     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/26469     Document Type: Article

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