Oxygen isotopes of East Asian dinosaurs reveal exceptionally cold Early Cretaceous climates

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

Volumn 108, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5179-5183

  Amiot, Romain ^a,j   Wang, Xu ^b   Zhou, Zhonghe ^a   Wang, Xiaolin ^a   Buffetaut, Eric ^c   Lécuyer, Christophe ^d,j   Ding, Zhongli ^b   Fluteau, Frédéric ^e   Hibino, Tsuyoshi ^f   Kusuhashi, Nao ^g   Mo, Jinyou ^h   Suteethorn, Varavudh ⁱ   Wang, Yuanqing ^a   Xu, Xing ^a   Zhang, Fusong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^f Shiramine Institute of Paleontology   (Japan)

^g EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

ⁱ Department of Mineral Resources ^*  (Thailand)

^j UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

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Author keywords

Oxygen isotopes; Paleoclimate; Vertebrate phosphate

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CHINA; COLD CLIMATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; JAPAN; LOW TEMPERATURE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THAILAND;

CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); DINOSAURIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOXYLON;

EID: 79955092864     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1011369108     Document Type: Article

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