A basal ceratopsian with transitional features from the Late Jurassic of northwestern China

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1598, 2006, Pages 2135-2140

  Xu, Xing ^a,b   Forster, Catherine A ^c   Clark, James M ^d   Mo, Jinyou ^e,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^f Natural History Museum of Guangxi   (China)

Author keywords

Ceratopsia; Late Jurassic; Marginocephalia; Ornithischia; Shishugou Formation

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; DINOSAUR; JURASSIC;

ARTICLE; CHINA; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL TIME; JURASSIC; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XINJIANG UYGUR;

CERATOPSIA; DINOSAURIA; ORNITHISCHIA; ORNITHOPODA;

EID: 33748268072     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3566     Document Type: Article

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