Additional specimen of Microraptor provides unique evidence of dinosaurs preying on birds

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

Volumn 108, Issue 49, 2011, Pages 19662-19665

  O'Connor, Jingmai ^a   Zhou, Zhonghe ^a   Xu, Xing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Flight; Paleoecology

Indexed keywords

ARBOREAL SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHINA; CRETACEOUS; DIET; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL; MICRORAPTOR GUI; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; BIRDS; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; PALEONTOLOGY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; WING;

EID: 83755207338     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117727108     Document Type: Article

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