A beaked basal ornithurine bird (Aves, Ornithurae) from the Lower Cretaceous of China

Zoologica Scripta

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 363-373

  Zhou, Zhonghe ^a   Zhang, Fucheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; ORNITHURAE; SPATHULA;

EID: 33745107774     PISSN: 03003256     EISSN: 14636409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00234.x     Document Type: Article

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