A basal parvicursorine (theropoda: alvarezsauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of China

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 2413, 2010, Pages 1-19

  Xu, Xing ^a   Wang, De You ^b   Sullivan, Corwin ^a   Hone, David W E ^a   Han, Feng Lu ^a   Yan, Rong Hao ^c   Du, Fu Ming ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b Scientific Academy of Land and Resources of Henan   (China)

^c Xixia Museum of Dinosaur Fossil Eggs of China   (China)

Author keywords

Cursoriality; Late Cretaceous; Majiacun Formation; Parvicursorinae; Theropoda

Indexed keywords

ALVAREZSAURIDAE; AVES; DINOSAURIA; THEROPODA;

EID: 77953922043     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2413.1.1     Document Type: Article

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