Two feathered dinosaurs from northeastern china

Nature

Volumn 393, Issue 6687, 1998, Pages 753-761

  Qiang, Ji ^a   Currie, Philip J ^b   Norell, Mark A ^c   Shu An, Ji ^a  

^a Geological Museum of China   (China)

^b ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY   (Canada)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; THEROPOD;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHINA; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHINA;

EID: 0032565960     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/31635     Document Type: Article

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