A giant ornithomimosaur from the early cretaceous of China

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1679, 2010, Pages 191-198

  Makovicky, Peter J ^a   Li, Daqing ^b   Gao, Ke Qin ^c   Lewin, Matthew ^d   Erickson, Gregory M ^e   Norell, Mark A ^f  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b Gansu Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Exploration   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^e FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size evolution; Central asia; Cretaceous; Faunal assemblage; Ornithomimosauria; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; APTIAN; BODY SIZE; CRANIUM; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HERBIVORE; HISTOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PARALLEL EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENETICS; SKELETON; SYMPATRY;

CHINA; GANSU; NORTH AMERICA;

DINOSAURIA; HARPYMIMUS; ORNITHOMIMIDAE; ORNITHOMIMOSAURIA; STRUTHIONIFORMES;

EID: 74349089835     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0236     Document Type: Article

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