Large fossil birds from a Late Cretaceous marine turbidite sequence on Hornby Island (British Columbia)

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1489-1496

  Dyke, Gareth ^a   Wang, Xia ^a   Kaiser, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b RoyBC Mus   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITISH COLUMBIA; DEEPWATER; LATE CRETACEOUS; MESOZOIC SEDIMENTS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SIZE CLASS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS;

BIRD; BONE; CRETACEOUS; DEEP WATER; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOBIOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TAXONOMY; TURBIDITE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; HORNBY ISLAND; NORTHUMBERLAND STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

AVES; DINOSAURIA; ENANTIORNITHES; ORNITHURAE;

EID: 80055073599     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: 14803313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e11-050     Document Type: Article

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