A new carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen archipelago

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7082, 2006, Pages 329-332

  Göhlich, Ursula B ^a   Chiappe, Luis M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

COELUROSAUR; JURASSIC THEROPOD DINOSAURS; SKELETONS;

BIODIVERSITY;

DINOSAUR; JURASSIC; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES;

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; DINOSAUR; FACE; FEATHER; FOSSIL; GERMANY; INTEGUMENT; JURASSIC; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIL; TAXON; TAXONOMY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

AVES; DINOSAURIA; THEROPODA;

EID: 33645033537     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04579     Document Type: Article

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