Notes on the cranial osteology of Muraeno-saurus SEELEY, 1874 (Sauropterygia, Jurassic), with special reference to the neurocranium and its implications for sauropterygian phylogeny

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 207-253

  Maisch, Michael W ^a,b  

^a Universität Tübingen ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; OSTEOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE;

ELASMOSAURIDAE; NETTASTOMA; SAURIA; SAUROPTERYGIA;

EID: 0013682658     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/207/1998/207     Document Type: Article

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