The extent of the preserved feathers on the four-winged dinosaur Microraptor gui under ultraviolet light

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Hone, David W E ^a   Tischlinger, Helmut ^b   Xu, Xing ^a   Zhang, Fucheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHINA; DINOSAUR; FEATHER; FLYING; FOSSIL ANIMAL; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MICRORAPTOR GUI; NONHUMAN; SKELETON; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE PRESERVATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ANIMAL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; FOSSIL; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; RADIOLOGY; STERNUM;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DINOSAURIA; THEROPODA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHINA; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; FEATHERS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FORELIMB; FOSSILS; HINDLIMB; PALEONTOLOGY; STERNUM; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WING;

EID: 77950176509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009223     Document Type: Article

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