First record of dinosaurs in the Late Jurassic of the Adriatic-Dinaridic carbonate platform (Crotia)

Palaios

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 188-199

  Mezga, Aleksandar ^a   Tešović, Blanka Cvetko ^a   Bajraktarević, Zlatan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FOOTPRINT; ICHNOFACIES; JURASSIC; OUTCROP; SKELETAL REMAINS; TRACKWAY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ISTRIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BRONTOPODUS; DINOSAURIA; PARABRONTOPODUS; SAUROPODA;

EID: 34548219457     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2006.p06-043r     Document Type: Article

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