Four-winged dinosaurs from China

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6921, 2003, Pages 335-340

  Xu, Xing ^a   Zhou, Zhonghe ^a   Wang, Xiaolin ^a   Kuang, Xuewen ^b   Zhang, Fucheng ^a   Du, Xiangke ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b Tianjin Natural History Museum   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIDERS; WINGS;

DINOSAURIAN HYPOTHESIS;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

BIRD; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; FLIGHT; WING;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CHINA; DINOSAUR; FEMUR; FLYING; FORELIMB; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHINA; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; FEATHERS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WING;

CHINA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DINOSAURIA; GRUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037461733     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01342     Document Type: Article

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