Pterosaur diversity and faunal turnover in Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in China

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7060, 2005, Pages 875-879

  Wang, Xiaolin ^a   Kellner, Alexander W A ^b   Zhou, Zhonghe ^a   Campos, Diogenes De Almeida ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c Museu de Ciencias da Terra   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ZONES;

BIRDS; FAUNAL TURNOVER; PTEROSAUR DIVERSITY; REPTILE GROUPS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MORPHOLOGY;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CRETACEOUS; ECOSYSTEM; FAUNA; FOWL; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; JAW; LAND BIOME; MESOZOIC; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANUROGNATHIDAE; AVES; ISTIODACTYLUS; LATIDENS; REPTILIA;

EID: 27144448823     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03982     Document Type: Article

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