First dinosaur tracks from the Arabian Peninsula

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Schulp, Anne S ^a   Al Wosabi, Mohammed ^b   Stevens, Nancy J ^c  

^a NATUURHISTORISCH MUSEUM MAASTRICHT   (Netherlands)

^b SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; HALLUX; MESOZOIC; MIDDLE EAST; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRESERVATION; VERTEBRATE; YEMEN; ANIMAL; GEOLOGY;

DINOSAURIA; ORNITHOPODA; SAUROPODA; TITANOSAURIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; GEOLOGY; YEMEN;

EID: 48249155374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002243     Document Type: Article

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