The Jehol Fossils: The emergence of feathered dinosaurs, beaked birds and flowering plants

The Jehol Fossils: The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-208

  Chang, Mee Mann ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

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