Paleontology: A well-preserved Archaeoptryx specimen with theropod features

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5753, 2005, Pages 1483-1486

  Mayr, Gerald ^a   Pohl, Burkhard ^b   Peters, D Stefan ^a  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Wyoming Dinosaur Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY;

BIRDS; OSTEOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; SKELETONS;

BONE;

LIMESTONE;

DINOSAUR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BIRD; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL; GERMANY; JURASSIC; NONHUMAN; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; BONE; EVOLUTION; FEATHER;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; DINOSAURIA; THEROPODA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BONE AND BONES; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; FEATHERS; FOSSILS; GERMANY; SKELETON;

EID: 28544446242     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1120331     Document Type: Article

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