A gigantic bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China

Nature

Volumn 447, Issue 7146, 2007, Pages 844-847

  Xu, Xing ^a   Tan, Qingwei ^b   Wang, Jianmin ^c   Zhao, Xijin ^a   Tan, Lin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b Long Hao Institute of Geology and Paleontology   (China)

^c Department of Land Resources ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BODY MASS; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; GROWTH RATE; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; SKELETAL REMAINS;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; GIGANTORAPTOR ERLIANENSIS; GORGOSAURUS; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

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

AVES; COELUROSAURIA; DINOSAURIA; OVIRAPTOROSAURIA; TARBOSAURUS; THEROPODA;

EID: 34250370971     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05849     Document Type: Article

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