First dinosaur from the Shan-Thai Block of SE Asia: A Jurassic sauropod from the southern peninsula of Thailand

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 481-484

  Buffetaut, Eric ^a   Suteethorn, Varavudh ^b   Tong, Haiyan ^a   Košir, Adrijan ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Department of Mineral Resources ^*  (Thailand)

^c ANTON MELIK GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Jurassic; Sauropoda; Shan Thai Block; Thailand

Indexed keywords

DINOSAUR; JURASSIC;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND; WORLD;

DINOSAURIA; EUHELOPODIDAE; SAUROPODA;

EID: 18844384470     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764904-053     Document Type: Article

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