Fossil lizards from the Early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 17-30

  Mackness, Brian S ^a,b   Hutchinson, Mark N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b South Australian Museum ^*  (Australia)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

?Megalania; Bluff Downs Local Fauna; Egernia; Eulamprus; Heteronotia; Lizards; Pliocene; Tiliqua; Varanids

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001789438     PISSN: 00855812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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