The lungfish Tranodis and the tetrapod fauna from the Upper Mississippian of North America

Special Papers in Palaeontology

Volumn 52, Issue , 1996, Pages 31-54

  Schultze, H P ^a   Bolt, J R ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

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