A sauropod dinosaur tooth from the Middle Jurassic of Skye, Scotland

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-29

  Barrett, Paul M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Great Estuarine Group; Kilmaluag Formation; Late Bathonian; Sauropoda

Indexed keywords

DINOSAUR; FAUNA; JURASSIC; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOOTH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HIGHLAND; SCOTLAND; SKYE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CETIOSAURUS; DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA; TITANOSAURIFORMES;

EID: 33846227487     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593306000022     Document Type: Article

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