New insights into the skull of istiodactylus latidens (ornithocheiroidea, pterodactyloidea)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Witton, Mark P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CLASSIFICATION; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; HAOPTERUS GRACILIS; HONGSHANOPTERUS LACUSTRIS; ISTIODACTYLIDAE; ISTIODACTYLUS LATIDENS; ISTIODACTYLUS SINENSIS; JAW; LIAOXIPTERUS BRACHYOGNATHUS; LONCHENGPTERUS ZHOAI; MAXILLA; NONHUMAN; NURHACHIUS IGNACIOBRITOI; ORBIT; PTEROSAUR; SCAVENGER (ORGANISM); SKULL; TAXONOMY; TOOTH; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

AVES; ISTIODACTYLUS; LATIDENS; PTERODACTYLOIDEA;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSILS; JAW; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SKULL;

EID: 84858667824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033170     Document Type: Article

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