New material of dsungaripterid pterosaurs (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from western Mongolia and its palaeoecological implications

Geological Magazine

Volumn 146, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 690-700

  Lü, Junchang ^a   Azuma, Yoichi ^b   Dong, Zhiming ^c   Barsbold, Rinchen ^d   Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu ^e   Lee, Yuong Nam ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b Katsuyama   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dsungaripteroidea; Early Cretaceous; Mongolia; Pterosauria; Tatal; Tsagan Tsab Formation

Indexed keywords

DSUNGARIPTEROIDEA; EARLY CRETACEOUS; MONGOLIA; PTEROSAURIA; TATAL; TSAGAN-TSAB FORMATION;

CRETACEOUS; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PTEROSAUR; SKULL; TOOTH;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA;

DSUNGARIPTERIDAE; DSUNGARIPTEROIDEA; PTERODACTYLOIDEA; PTEROSAURIA;

EID: 70349226998     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756809006414     Document Type: Article

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