Application of forensic science techniques to trace fossils on dinosaur bones from a quarry in the upper jurassic morrison formation, northeastern wyoming

Palaios

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 140-158

  Bader, Kenneth S ^a   Hasiotis, Stephen T ^a   Martin, Larry D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DINOSAUR; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FORENSIC SCIENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; JURASSIC; PUPATION; QUARRY; SKELETON; TAPHONOMY; TRACE FOSSIL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

ARTHROPODA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); DERMESTIDAE; DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA; THEROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 63849172775     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2008.p08-058r     Document Type: Article

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