Morphology and phylogenetic informativeness of early archosaur braincases

Palaeontology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 883-906

  Gower, D J ^a,b   Sennikov, A G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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