A gigantic feathered dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China

Nature

Volumn 484, Issue 7392, 2012, Pages 92-95

  Xu, Xing ^a,b   Wang, Kebai ^c   Zhang, Ke ^d   Ma, Qingyu ^a   Xing, Lida ^e   Sullivan, Corwin ^a   Hu, Dongyu ^b   Cheng, Shuqing ^c   Wang, Shuo ^a,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b SHENYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Zhucheng Dinosaur Museum   (China)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; MORPHOMETRY; ONTOGENY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SKELETON;

ARTICLE; CHINA; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MIDDLE JURASSIC; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; SKULL; UPPER JURASSIC;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CHINA; DINOSAURS; FEATHERS; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; SKELETON; SKULL;

CHINA;

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; THEROPODA; TYRANNOSAURIDAE; TYRANNOSAUROIDEA;

EID: 84859462700     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10906     Document Type: Article

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