The first definitive record of a fossil bird from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of the Haeg Basin, Romania

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 227-230

  Wang, Xia ^a   Csiki, Zoltán ^b   Ösi, Attila ^c   Dyke, Gareth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEONTOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

ROMANIA;

AVES;

EID: 79951574789     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: 19372809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2011.541013     Document Type: Article

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