Three-dimensional presentation of foot movements in Triassic theropod dinosaurs

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6732, 1999, Pages 141-144

  Gatesy, Stephen M ^a   Middleton, Kevin M ^a   Jenkins Jr, Farish A ^b   Shubin, Neil H ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINOSAUR; FOOTPRINT; LOCOMOTION; TRACKWAY; TRIASSIC;

ARTICLE; FOOT; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NATURAL SCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

GREENLAND;

AVES; DINOSAURIA; THEROPODA;

EID: 0033551341     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/20167     Document Type: Article

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