A new crested ornithocheirid from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil and the unusual death of an unusual pterosaur

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 217, Issue , 2003, Pages 55-63

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

^a Staatliches Mus Naturkunde Karlsruh   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; CRETACEOUS; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; NEW TAXON; PTEROSAUR; TAXONOMY;

ARARIPE BASIN; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

PTERODACTYLOIDEA; PTEROSAURIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0347912017     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.217.01.05     Document Type: Article

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