New material of large-bodied ornithischian dinosaurs, including an iguanodontian ornithopod, from the Quantou Formation (middle Cretaceous: Aptian-Cenomanian) of Jilin Province, northeastern China

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 248, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 309-314

  Jun, Chen ^a,b   Butler, Richard J ^a,c   Liyong, Jin ^a,b  

^a Chaoyang Campus ^*

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ankylosauria; China; Cretaceous; Iguanodontia; Ornithischia; Ornithopoda; Quantou formation

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD;

CHINA; JILIN;

ANKYLOSAURIA; CERATOPSIA; DINOSAURIA; IGUANODONTIA; MAMMALIA; ORNITHISCHIA; ORNITHOPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 46649103050     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2008/0248-0309     Document Type: Article

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