Fossil turtles from the early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, with a description of a new species of Elseya

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia

Volumn 123, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 101-105

  Thomson, Scott A ^a   Mackness, Brian S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bluff Downs Local Fauna; Chelids; Chelodina; Elseya; Emydura; Pliocene; Turtles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000224999     PISSN: 00855812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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