The discovery of dinosaur footprints from the Middle Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation of Qijiang County, Chongqing City

Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition)

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1591-1602

  Xing, Lida ^a,b   Wang, Fengping ^c   Pan, Shigang ^b   Chen, Wei ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b Lufeng Dinosaur Museum   (China)

^c Qijiang District Bureau of Land Resources   (China)

^d Chongqing Natural History Museum   (China)

Author keywords

Ankylosauria; Jiaguan Formation; Middle Cretaceous; Ornithopoda; Qijiang County; Theropoda

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FOOTPRINT; FOSSIL RECORD; ICHNOLOGY; TRACE FOSSIL;

ASIA; CHINA; CHONGQING; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

ANKYLOSAURIA; CARIRICHNIUM; DINOSAURIA; HADROSAUROIDEA; ORNITHOPODA; THEROPODA;

EID: 38849129947     PISSN: 10009515     EISSN: 17556724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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