Exceptionally preserved juvenile megalosauroid theropod dinosaur with filamentous integument from the Late Jurassic of Germany

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

Volumn 109, Issue 29, 2012, Pages 11746-11751

  Rauhut, Oliver W M ^a   Foth, Christian ^a   Tischlinger, Helmut ^b   Norell, Mark A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Jura Museum Eichstatt SNSB JME   (Germany)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feather evolution; Megalosauridae; Theropoda; Upper jurassic

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; DINOSAUR; GERMANY; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIURIMIMUS ALBERSDOERFERI; SKELETON; UPPER JURASSIC;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BONE AND BONES; DINOSAURS; FEATHERS; FOSSILS; GERMANY; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

COELUROSAURIA; DINOSAURIA; ORNITHISCHIA; SINOSAUROPTERYX; THEROPODA;

EID: 84863895880     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1203238109     Document Type: Article

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