Anatomy of the Early Cretaceous bird Eoenantiornis buhleri (Aves: Enantiornithes) from China

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1331-1338

  Zhou, Zhonghe ^a   Chiappe, Luis M ^b   Zhang, Fucheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION; BIOLOGY; BONE; MORPHOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS BIRD; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PLUMAGE;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ANATOMY; BIRD; CRETACEOUS; SKULL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

AVES;

EID: 30444450260     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e05-038     Document Type: Article

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