An aggregation of lizard skeletons from the lower cretaceous of China

Senckenbergiana Lethaea

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 109-118

  Evans, Susan E ^a   Wang, Yuan ^b   Jones, Marc E H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aggregation; China; Dalinghosaurus; Lizard; Ontogenetic variation

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRANIUM; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL RECORD; LIZARD; ONTOGENY; SKELETON; TAPHONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

ANIMALIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 35548976580     PISSN: 00372110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03043910     Document Type: Article

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