Isolated dinosaur teeth from the Lower Cretaceous Shahai and Fuxin formations of northeastern China

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 347-358

  Amiot, Romain ^a,b   Kusuhashi, Nao ^a,c   Xu, Xing ^a   Wang, Yuanqing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

China; Dinosaurs; Early cretaceous; Fuxin Formation; Isolated teeth; Shahai Formation

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; APTIAN; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SKELETAL REMAINS; TAXONOMY; TOOTH;

CHINA; FUXIN; LIAONING;

ANKYLOSAURIA; ANKYLOSAURIDAE; DINOSAURIA; DROMAEOSAURIDAE; NEOCERATOPSIA; NODOSAURIDAE; ORNITHISCHIA; SAUROPODA; THEROPODA; TITANOSAURIFORMES;

EID: 77954144554     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.04.017     Document Type: Article

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