Plesiosaur locomotion: Is the four-wing problem real or merely an atheoretical exercise?

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-87

  Lingham Soliar, Theagarten ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY SHAPE; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; REPTILE; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0041849739     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/217/2000/45     Document Type: Article

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