Ichnological evidence for quadrupedal locomotion in pterodactyloid pterosaurs: Trackways from the Late Jurassic of Crayssac (southwestern France)

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 217, Issue , 2003, Pages 283-296

  Mazin, Jean Michel ^a   Billon Bruyat, Jean Paul ^a   Hantzpergue, Pierre ^b   Lafaurie, Gérard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c NONE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICHNOLOGY; JURASSIC; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; PTEROSAUR; TRACKWAY;

CRAYSSAC; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MIDI-PYRENEES; QUERCY; WESTERN EUROPE;

CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); PTERODACTYLOIDEA; PTEROSAURIA; TITHONIA;

EID: 0346020451     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.217.01.17     Document Type: Article

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