A basal troodontid from the Early Cretaceous of China

Nature

Volumn 415, Issue 6873, 2002, Pages 780-784

  Xu, Xing ^a   Norell, Mark A ^b   Wang, Xiao Lin ^a   Makovicky, Peter J ^c   Wu, Xiao Chun ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^d CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODIFICATION;

PHYLOGENETIC POSITION;

BIODIVERSITY;

CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS;

ARTICLE; CHINA; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BONE AND BONES; CHINA; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

CHINA;

AVES; COELUROSAURIA; DINOSAURIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037074954     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/415780a     Document Type: Article

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