A monodactyl nonavian dinosaur and the complex evolution of the alvarezsauroid hand

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2338-2342

  Xu, Xing ^a   Sullivan, Corwin ^a   Pittman, Michael ^b   Choiniere, Jonah N ^c   Hone, David ^a   Upchurch, Paul ^b   Tan, Qingwei ^d   Xiao, Dong ^e   Tan, Lin ^d   Han, Fenglu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Long Hao Institute of Geology and Paleontology   (China)

^e Department of Land and Resources ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Late cretaceous; Mosaic evolution; Theropoda

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLADISTICS; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; DINOSAUR; LINHENYKUS MONODACTYLUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; FOSSILS; REPTILES;

AVES; DINOSAURIA; MONODACTYLUS; THEROPODA; TYRANNOSAURIDAE;

EID: 79952290345     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1011052108     Document Type: Article

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