Feeding behaviour and bone utilization by theropod dinosaurs

Lethaia

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 232-244

  Hone, David W E ^a   Rauhut, Oliver W M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; CARNIVORY; DINOSAUR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUNTING; PALEOECOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; THEROPODA;

EID: 77953793648     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2009.00187.x     Document Type: Article

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