The tenth skeletal specimen of Archaeopteryx

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 97-116

  Mayr, Gerald ^a   Pohl, Burkhard ^b   Hartman, Scott ^b   Peters, D Stefan ^a  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Wyoming Dinosaur Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOPTERYX; ARCHAEOPTERYX LITHOGRAPHICA; AVES; DROMAEOSAURIDAE; THEROPODA; TROODONTIDAE;

EID: 33846171169     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00245.x     Document Type: Article

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