A giant pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of the eastern Paris Basin

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 175, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 573-577

  Buffetaut, Eric ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Early Cretaceous; Eastern Paris Basin; Humerus; Pterosauria; Wing span

Indexed keywords

BONE; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; MORPHOLOGY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; PARIS BASIN; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 11144221645     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/175.6.573     Document Type: Article

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