The first Late Cretaceous footprints from the Nemegt locality in the Gobi of Mongolia

Ichnos

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-13

  Currie, Philip J ^a   Badamgarav, Demchig ^b   Koppelhus, Eva B ^a  

^a ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

Footprints; Hadrosaur; Mongolia; Nemegt Formation; Sauropod; Theropod

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FOOTPRINT; ICHNOLOGY;

MONGOLIA;

DINOSAURIA; ORNITHOPODA; SAUROPODA; THEROPODA;

EID: 0142260458     PISSN: 10420940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10420940390235071     Document Type: Article

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