Early Cretaceous large theropod footprints from the Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province

Geological Bulletin of China

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1697-1700

  Hu, Song Mei ^a   Xing, Li Da ^b,c   Wang, Chang Fu ^d   Yang, Miao Miao ^a  

^a Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d Shangluo University   (China)

Author keywords

Donghe Group; Lower Cretaceous; Megalosauripus isp.; Shangluo area; Theropod tracks

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FOOTPRINT; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; SKELETAL REMAINS; TAXONOMY;

CHINA; SHAANXI; SHANGLUO;

DINOSAURIA; THEROPODA;

EID: 84870406031     PISSN: 16712552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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