The first well-preserved Early Cretaceous brachiosaurid dinosaur in Asia

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1675, 2009, Pages 4077-4082

  You, Hai Lu ^a   Li, Da Qing ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b Fossil Research and Development Center   (China)

Author keywords

Brachiosaurid; Dinosaur; Early Cretaceous; Gansu; Xinminpu Group; Yujingzi Basin

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NEW TAXON; PALEOBIOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; ASIA; BONE; CERVICAL SPINE; CHINA; DINOSAUR; HEIGHT; ISCHIUM; LOWER CRETACEOUS; NEW GENUS; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PELVIC GIRDLE; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXON;

CHINA; GANSU; YUJINGZI BASIN;

BRACHIOSAURIDAE; DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA;

EID: 72749112076     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1278     Document Type: Article

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