A therizinosauroid dinosaur with integumentary structures from China

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6734, 1999, Pages 350-354

  Xu, Xing ^a   Tang, Zhi Lu ^a   Wang, Xiao Lin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FEATHER;

ARTICLE; CHINA; FOSSIL; INTEGUMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; TAXONOMY;

CHINA;

AVES; COELUROSAURIA; DINOSAURIA; ORNITHISCHIA; REPTILIA; SAUROPODOMORPHA; SINOSAUROPTERYX; THEROPODA;

EID: 0033609334     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/20670     Document Type: Article

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