Revision of the Late Cretaceous North American marsupial genus Alphadon

Palaeontographica, Abteilung A: Palaozoologie - Stratigraphie

Volumn 242, Issue 4-6, 1996, Pages 127-184

  Johanson, Zerina ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alphadon; Late Cretaceous; Marsupials; North America

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0000267830     PISSN: 03750442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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