A primitive istiodactylid pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) from the Jiufotang Formation (Early Cretaceous), northeast China

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1813, 2008, Pages 1-18

  Wang, Xiaolin ^a   Campos, Diogenes De Almeida ^b   Zhou, Zhonghe ^a   Kellner, Alexander W A ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b Museu de Ciencias da Terra   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

China; Early cretaceous; Istiodactylidae; Liaoning; Pterodactyloidea; Pterosauria

Indexed keywords

ISTIODACTYLUS; PTERANODON; PTERANODONTIDAE; PTERODACTYLOIDEA; PTEROSAURIA;

EID: 47249103387     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1813.1.1     Document Type: Article

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