Timing of the earliest known feathered dinosaurs and transitional pterosaurs older than the Jehol Biota

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 323-325, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-12

  Liu, Yong Qing ^a   Kuang, Hong Wei ^a   Jiang, Xiao Jun ^a   Peng, Nan ^b   Xu, Huan ^a   Sun, Hui Yi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Age; Biota,China; The Daohugou Biota, the Jehol; The feathered dinosaurs; Transitional pterosaurs

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BIRD; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EXTINCTION; FEATHER; FOSSIL RECORD; JURASSIC; PALEOBIOLOGY; REPTILE; SEXUAL MATURITY;

CHINA;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; DINOSAURIA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; ORNITHISCHIA; THEROPODA;

EID: 84862809598     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.01.017     Document Type: Article

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