Taphonomy and age profile of a latest Cretaceous dinosaur bone bed in Far Eastern Russia

Palaios

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 153-162

  Lauters, Pascaline ^a   Bolotsky, Yuri L ^b   van Itterbeeck, Jimmy ^c   Godefroit, Pascal ^a  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY AND SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; JUVENILE; MAASTRICHTIAN; NESTLING; SKELETAL REMAINS; TAPHONOMY; TOOTH;

AMUR; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; ZEYA-BUREYA BASIN;

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; THEROPODA;

EID: 42249092054     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2006.p06-031r     Document Type: Article

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