A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7077, 2006, Pages 715-718

  Xu, Xing ^a,b   Clark, James M ^c   Forster, Catherine A ^d   Norell, Mark A ^b   Erickson, Gregory M ^e   Eberth, David A ^f   Jia, Chengkai ^a   Zhao, Qi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; SEDIMENTS;

BASAL TYRANNOSAUROID DINOSAUR; COELUROSAURIA; PELVIC FEATURES; TYRANNOSAUROID FOSSIL;

BIODIVERSITY;

DINOSAUR; JURASSIC;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLADISTICS; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EXPECTATION; FOSSIL; JURASSIC; NONHUMAN; PELVIS; PLESIOMORPHY; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TISSUE SECTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

AVES; COELUROSAURIA; DINOSAURIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 32544439572     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04511     Document Type: Article

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