Had Confuciusornis to be a climber?;Musste Confuciusornis klettern?

Journal fur Ornithologie

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-50

  Peters, Dieter Stefan ^a   Qiang, Ji ^b  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b The Geological Museum of China   (China)

Author keywords

Confuciusornis; Flight; Mesozoic birds

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY;

CONFUCIUSORNIS SANCTUS;

EID: 0032985106     PISSN: 00218375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02462087     Document Type: Article

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