Basal titanosauriform (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) teeth from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, China

Palaeoworld

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 265-271

  Barrett, Paul M ^a   Wang, Xiao Lin ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Lower Cretaceous; Sauropoda; Titanosauriformes; Yixian Formation

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; TOOTH;

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

AVES; DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA; TITANOSAURIFORMES;

EID: 35348943546     PISSN: 1871174X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palwor.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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