Pterosaur swim tracks and other ichnological evidence of behaviour and ecology

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 217, Issue , 2003, Pages 297-313

  Lockley, Martin G ^a   Wright, Joanna L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; ICHNOFACIES; PALEOECOLOGY; PTEROSAUR; SWIMMING; TRACKWAY;

ANIMALIA; PTEROSAURIA;

EID: 0347658954     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.217.01.18     Document Type: Article

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