Social behaviour and mass mortality in the basal ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus (Early cretaceous, People's Republic of China)

Palaeontology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1023-1029

  Qi, Zhao ^a,b   Barrett, Paul M ^c   Eberth, David A ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early cretaceous; Lahar; Psittaco saurus; Social behaviour; Yixian formation

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; LAHAR; MASS MORTALITY; SKELETON; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LIAONING; YIXIAN;

CERATOPSIA; CERATOPSIDAE; DINOSAURIA; PSITTACOSAURUS;

EID: 34548719863     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00709.x     Document Type: Article

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