A juvenile lizard specimen with well-preserved skin impressions from the Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 431-439

  Evans, S E ^a   Wang, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Late Jurassic Early Cretaceous; Lizard; Ontogeny; Scalation

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; LIZARD; NEW RECORD; ONTOGENY; SKELETON; SKIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLOACA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRETACEOUS; DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; HATCHLING; JEHOLACERTA FORMOSA; JURASSIC; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; SKIN; SKULL; SOFT TISSUE; VERTEBRA; YABEINOSAURUS TENIUS;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CHINA; FOSSILS; GEOLOGY; LIZARDS;

ASIA; CHINA; DAOHUGOU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL;

LEPIDOSAURIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 34248366026     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0214-y     Document Type: Article

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