An Early Cretaceous heterodontosaurid dinosaur with filamentous integumentary structures

Nature

Volumn 458, Issue 7236, 2009, Pages 333-336

  Zheng, Xiao Ting ^a   You, Hai Lu ^b   Xu, Xing ^c   Dong, Zhi Ming ^c  

^a Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; JURASSIC; RANGE EXPANSION;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLADISTICS; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTEGUMENT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN STRUCTURE; SKULL;

ANIMALS; CHINA; DENTITION; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; FEATHERS; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; SKIN; SKULL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LIAONING;

DINOSAURIA; ORNITHISCHIA;

EID: 62649143224     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07856     Document Type: Article

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