New pterosaur tracks from the Hasandong Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Hadong County, South Korea

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 345-353

  Lee, Yuong Nam ^a   Lee, Hang Jae ^a   Lü, Junchang ^b   Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu ^c  

^a Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early Cretaceous; Hasandong Formation; Pteraichnus koreanensis; Pterosaur tracks; South Korea

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FOOTPRINT; ICHNOLOGY; PTEROSAUR; TRACKWAY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA; SOUTH KOREA;

PTERAICHNUS;

EID: 41149172754     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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