The postcranial skeleton of the iguanodontian ornithopod Jinzhousaurus yangi from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 135-159

  Wang, Xiaolin ^a   Pan, Rui ^a   Butler, Richard J ^b   Barrett, Paul M ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b BAYERISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG FÜR PALÄONTOLOGIE UND GEOLOGIE   (Germany)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early Cretaceous; Hadrosauridae; Iguanodontia; Ornithopoda; systematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861324434     PISSN: 17556910     EISSN: 17556929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755691010009266     Document Type: Article

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