The skull of Yunnanosaurus huangi Young, 1942 (Dinosauria: Prosauropoda) from the Lower Lufeng Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Yunnan, China

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 319-341

  Barrett, Paul M ^a   Upchurch, P ^b   Zhou, X D ^c   Wang, X L ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Nanjing Geological Museum   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Basal Sauropodomorpha; Cranial morphology; Palaeobiology; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA; SAUROPODOMORPHA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34250347335     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00290.x     Document Type: Article

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