Early Cretaceous Squamates from the Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 207, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 289-309

  Gao, Keqin ^a   Nessov, Lev A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FAUNA; LIZARD;

GOBI DESERT; KYZYLKUM DESERT; UZBEKISTAN;

ALBIA; AMPHISBAENIA; IGUANIA; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA; XENOSAURIDAE;

EID: 0000663697     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/207/1998/289     Document Type: Article

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