Embryos of therizinosauroid theropods from the Upper Cretaceous of China: Diagnosis and analysis of ossification patterns

Acta Zoologica

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 231-251

  Kundrát, Martin ^a,b   Cruickshank, Arthur R I ^c   Manning, Terry W ^d   Nudds, John ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d Rock Art   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development; Embryo; Ontogeny; Ossification; Phylogeny; Precociality; Systematics; Therizinosauroidea; Theropoda

Indexed keywords

BONE; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EMBRYO; LIMB; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRECOCIALITY; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

DINOSAURIA; OVIRAPTOROSAURIA; SPONDIAS PURPUREA; THEROPODA;

EID: 44949119554     PISSN: 00017272     EISSN: 14636395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.2007.00311.x     Document Type: Article

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