The earliest dromaeosaurid theropod from South America

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7061, 2005, Pages 1007-1011

  Makovicky, Peter J ^a   Apesteguía, Sebastián ^b,c   Agnolín, Federico L ^b  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y ANTROPOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; ECOLOGY;

BIRDS; LAND-MASSES; MANIRAPTORAN SPECIMENS; THERAPOD;

BIODIVERSITY;

DINOSAUR; FOSSIL; GONDWANA; MESOZOIC; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA;

SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; DINOSAURIA; THEROPODA;

EID: 27144454058     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03996     Document Type: Article

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