Continental insect borings in dinosaur bone: Examples from the late Cretaceous of Madagascar and Utah

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 201-208

  Roberts, Eric M ^a   Rogers, Raymond R ^b   Foreman, Brady Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; BORING ORGANISM; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL; ICHNOLOGY; INSECT; JURASSIC; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PLEISTOCENE; SKELETAL REMAINS;

AFRICA; ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; DINOSAURIA; HEXAPODA; SILPHIDAE;

EID: 33846504070     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2007)81[201:CIBIDB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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