Postcranial anatomy and systematics of Enaliornis SEELEY, 1876, a foot-propelled diving bird (Aves: Ornithurae: Hesperornithiformes) from the Early Cretaceous of England;Anatomie postcrǎnienne et systématique d'Enaliornis, un oiseau plongeur (Aves: Ornithurae: Hesperornithiformes) du Crétacé inférieur d'Angleterre

Revue de Paleobiologie

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 489-538

  Galton, Peter M ^a   Martin, Larry D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aves; Enaliornis; England; Hesperornithiformes; Lower Cretaceous; Ornithurae; Postcranial skeleton

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CRETACEOUS; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENETICS; SKELETON; TAXONOMY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ALBIA; AVES; GAVIIDAE; HESPERORNITHIFORMES; MAMMALIA; MYA; ORNITHURAE; PODICIPEDIDAE; STOLICZKAIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038330677     PISSN: 02536730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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