A Late Eocene date for Late Triassic bird tracks

Nature

Volumn 495, Issue 7441, 2013, Pages

  Melchor, Ricardo N ^a   Buchwaldt, Robert ^b   Bowring, Samuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PAMPA   (Argentina)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZIRCONIUM;

BIRD; EOCENE; FOSSIL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPPER TRIASSIC;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BIRDS; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

EID: 84875301416     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11931     Document Type: Note

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