A juvenile coelurosaurian theropod from China indicates arboreal habits

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 394-398

  Zhang, Fucheng ^a   Zhou, Zhonghe ^a   Xu, Xing ^a   Wang, Xiaolin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARBOREAL SPECIES; FOSSIL RECORD; LIMB; MESOZOIC;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHINA; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; NONHUMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PHALANX; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

CHINA;

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; COELUROSAURIA; DINOSAURIA; EPIDENDROSAURUS NINGCHENGENSIS; THEROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036750204     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-002-0353-8     Document Type: Article

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