A Middle Jurassic dinosaur trackway site from Oxfordshire, UK

Palaeontology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 319-348

  Day, Julia J ^a   Norman, David B ^a   Gale, Andrew S ^b   Upchurch, Paul ^a   Powell, H Philip H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bathonian; Cetiosaurus; GPS; Locomotion; Megalosaurus; Sauropod; Theropod

Indexed keywords

BATHONIAN; DINOSAUR; LOCOMOTION; TRACKWAY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; OXFORDSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CETIOSAURUS; DINOSAURIA; SAURISCHIA; SAUROPODA; THEROPODA;

EID: 1942508221     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00366.x     Document Type: Article

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