Middle- and bottom-decker Cretaceous pterosaur: Unique designs in active flying vertebrates

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 217, Issue , 2003, Pages 267-274

  Frey, Eberhard ^a   Buchy, Marie Céline ^b   Martill, David M ^c  

^a Staatliches Mus Naturkunde Karlsruh   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FLIGHT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; PTEROSAUR; WING MORPHOLOGY;

PTEROSAURIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0347658975     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.217.01.15     Document Type: Article

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