Body plumage in Archaeopteryx: A review, and new evidence from the Berlin specimen;Plumage sur le corps de l'Archœopteryx : Une revue et nouvelles indications fournies par le spécimen de Berlin

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 99-118

  Christiansen, Per ^a   Bonde, Niels ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FEATHER; PLUMAGE;

APTERIA; ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; GALLIFORMES; PALAEOGNATHAE;

EID: 1842684894     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2003.12.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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