Sauropod trackway patterns expression of special behaviour related to substrate consistency? An example from the Late Jurassic of northwestern Switzerland

Hantkeniana

Volumn , Issue 5, 2006, Pages 38-41

  Marty, Daniel ^a,b   Meyer, Christian A ^c   Billon Bruyat, Jean Paul ^a  

^a Office de la Culture   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINOSAUR; JURASSIC; TRACKWAY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

SAUROPODA;

EID: 37549058030     PISSN: 12193933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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