The oldest known tracks of web-footed birds from the Lower Cretaceous of South Korea

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 256-259

  Lim, Jong Deock ^a   Zhou, Z ^b   Martin, L D ^a   Baek, K S ^c   Yang, S Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CRETACEOUS; TRACKWAY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; FOSSIL; HALLUX; NONHUMAN; SOUTH KOREA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; KOREA; LOCOMOTION; PALEONTOLOGY;

SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 0033923807     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001140050715     Document Type: Article

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