Early cretaceous bird-dominated and dinosaur footprint assemblages from the northwestern margin of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China

Palaeoworld

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 308-321

  Xing, Li Da ^a,b   Harris, Jerald D ^c   Jia, Cheng Kai ^d   Luo, Zheng Jiang ^d   Wang, Shen Na ^e   An, Jian Fu ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c DIXIE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT   (China)

^e Meilong Project Exploration Center   (China)

^f Moguicheng Dinosaur and Bizarre Stone Museum   (China)

Author keywords

Aquatilavipes isp.; Goseongornipes isp.; Koreanaornis dodsoni; Lower Cretaceous; Lower layer of the Tugulu Group; Moguiornipes robusta

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; DOMINANCE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WADER;

CHINA; JUNGGAR BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

AVES; DINOSAURIA;

EID: 80655124732     PISSN: 1871174X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palwor.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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