A feather from the Upper Cretaceous (lower Campanian) Point Lookout Sandstone, San Juan Basin, northwestern New Mexico

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 547-550

  Williamson, T E ^a   Kues, B S ^b   Weissmann, G S ^b   Stidham, T A ^c   Yurchyk, S L ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early Campanian; Late Cretaceous; Maniraptora; New Mexico; Pennaceous feather; Point Lookout Sandstone

Indexed keywords

CAMPANIAN; DEPOSITION; DINOSAUR; FACIES ANALYSIS; FEATHER; FOSSIL; RAPTOR; SANDSTONE;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; SAN JUAN BASIN; UNITED STATES;

AVES; BIVALVIA; CALAMUS (ANGIOSPERM); CARYOCORBULA; CONIFEROPHYTA; DINOSAURIA; INVERTEBRATA; LINGULA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MANIRAPTORA; NUCULA;

EID: 64149119331     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2008.10.003     Document Type: Article

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