Feather quill knobs in the dinosaur velociraptor

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5845, 2007, Pages 1721-

  Turner, Alan H ^a   Makovicky, Peter J ^b   Norell, Mark A ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINOSAUR; FEATHER; TAPHONOMY;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DINOSAUR; FEATHER; GEOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; FEATHERS; FOSSILS;

DINOSAURIA;

EID: 34648833813     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1145076     Document Type: Article

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10. We thank S. Nesbitt for comments, L. Barber and A. Balcarcel for preparation and casting, M. Ellison for photography, P. Sweet, P. Capainolo, and the 1998 Gobi field crew. This study was supported by NSF Division of Earth Sciences (M.A.N. and P.J.M.) and a NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement grant (A.H.T.).