Behavioral and faunal implications of Early Cretaceous deinonychosaur trackways from China

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 185-191

  Li, Rihui ^a   Lockley, Martin G ^b   Makovicky, Peter J ^c   Matsukawa, Masaki ^d   Norell, Mark A ^e   Harris, Jerald D ^f   Liu, Mingwei ^g  

^a CHINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^d TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^f DIXIE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Fourth Geological and Mineral Resources Survey of Shandong   (China)

Author keywords

China; Cretaceous; Deinonychosaur; Footprint; Gregariousness; Locomotion

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BODY SIZE; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FOOTPRINT; FOSSIL RECORD; GROUP BEHAVIOR; ICHNOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; PHYLOGENY; TRACKWAY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRETACEOUS; FAUNA; FOSSIL; LOCOMOTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; TAXONOMY; WILDLIFE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHINA; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHANDONG;

AVES; DEINONYCHOSAURIA; DINOSAURIA; THEROPODA;

EID: 43049117185     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-007-0310-7     Document Type: Article

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