Cretaceous age for the feathered dinosaurs of Liaoning, China

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6739, 1999, Pages 58-59

  Swisher III, Carl C ^a   Wang, Yuan Qing ^b   Wang, Xiao Lin ^b,c   Xu, Xing ^b   Wang, Yuan ^b  

^a BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BIRD; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE;

AGE DETERMINATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEATHER; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LAKE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHINA;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; ARCHAEFRUCTUS; AVES; BIVALVIA; CAUDATA; CAUDIPTERYX; CONCHOSTRACA; CONFUCIUSORNIS; DINOSAURIA; GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA; LIAONINGORNIS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MAMMALIA; OSTRACODA; PROTARCHAEOPTERYX; SINOSAUROPTERYX; SQUAMATA; TESTUDINES; ZHANGHEOTHERIUM;

EID: 0033168538     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21872     Document Type: Article

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