First record of a pterosaur landing trackway

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1674, 2009, Pages 3881-3886

  Mazin, Jean Michel ^a,b   Billon Bruyat, Jean Paul ^c   Padian, Kevin ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c Office de la Culture   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional morphology; Ichnology; Late jurassic; Mesozoic vertebrates; Pterosauria

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; ICHNOLOGY; JURASSIC; REPTILE; TRACKWAY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HINDLIMB; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTEROSAUR; REPTILE; WALKING; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; FLYING; FOSSIL; PHYSIOLOGY;

CRAYSSAC; FRANCE; LOT; MIDI-PYRENEES;

AVES; DINOSAURIA; MAMMALIA; PTERODACTYLOIDEA; PTEROSAURIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS; REPTILES;

EID: 70449700258     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1161     Document Type: Article

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