A new genus and species of pleurodiran turtle from the Cretaceous of southern Morocco

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 133-150

  Tong, Haiyan ^a   Buffetaut, Eric ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOMANIAN; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PALEONTOLOGY; SKULL; TURTLE;

MOROCCO;

EID: 0001042018     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/199/1996/133     Document Type: Article

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