Largest bird from the early cretaceous and its implications for the earliest avian ecological diversification

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 34-38

  Zhou, Zhonghe ^a   Zhang, Fucheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BODY SIZE; CRETACEOUS; MORPHOLOGY;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BODY SIZE; CHINA; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CRETACEOUS; DATA BASE; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; MICRORAPTOR; NEW RECORD (SPECIES); NONHUMAN; RAPTOR; SAPEORNIS CHAOYANGENSIS; VETERINARY ANATOMY;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

CHINA;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; DINOSAURIA; RAPTORES; THEROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036159436     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-001-0276-9     Document Type: Article

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