Two bone fragments of ornithocheiroid pterosaurs from the Cenomanian of Volgograd Region, southern Russia

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 289-294

  Averianov, Alexander O ^a   Kurochkin, Evgeny N ^b   Pervushov, Evgeny M ^c   Ivanov, Alexei V ^c  

^a ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cenomanian; Cretaceous; Ornithocheiroidea; Pterosauria; Russia

Indexed keywords

CENOMANIAN; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WORLD;

ISTIODACTYLUS; PTEROSAURIA;

EID: 21444438371     PISSN: 05677920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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