More than just Nopcsa's Transylvanian dinosaurs: A look outside the Haţeg Basin

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 293, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 391-405

  Codrea, Vlad ^a   Vremir, Matei ^a   Jipa, Cǎtǎlin ^a   Godefroit, Pascal ^b   Csiki, Zoltán ^c   Smith, Thierry ^b   Fǎrcaş, Cristina ^a  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

"Ha eg Island"; Land vertebrates; Late Cretaceous; Romania; Transylvania

Indexed keywords

DINOSAUR; FOSSIL RECORD; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; SKELETAL REMAINS;

ALBA; HATEG BASIN; ROMANIA; TRANSYLVANIA;

DINOSAURIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77954895801     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.10.027     Document Type: Article

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