A pterosaur femur from the upper Cretaceous of North Carolina

Southeastern Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-55

  Parris, David C ^a   Grandstaff, Barbara Smith ^a   Clements, Donald ^b  

^a New Jersey State Museum   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL; MAASTRICHTIAN; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

MAPLE HILL; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4644313323     PISSN: 00383678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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