A gliding lizard from the Early Cretaceous of China

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 104, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 5507-5509

  Li, Pi Peng ^a   Gao, Ke Qin ^b   Hou, Lian Hai ^a,c   Xu, Xing ^a,c  

^a SHENYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Acrodonta; Gliding adaptation; Liaoning; Patagium; Squamata

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CHINA; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIASSIC; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BONE; FLYING; HISTORY; PALEONTOLOGY; REPTILE;

ACRODONTA; AGAMIDAE; DRACO; PATAGIUM; SQUAMATA; TETRAPODA;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CHINA; EVOLUTION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; LIZARDS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES;

EID: 34248359579     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0609552104     Document Type: Article

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