A primitive chelonioid turtle from the late Cretaceous of Touraine, France;Une tortue chelonioidea primitive dans le Crétacé supérieur de Touraine, France

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 257-262

  Bardet, Nathalie ^a   Suberbiola, Xabier Pereda ^a,b   Badillet, Guy ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Chelonioidea; France; Late Cretaceous; Turtles

Indexed keywords

CHELONIOID; CRETACEOUS; LIMB BONE; TURONIAN; TURTLE; VERTEBRA;

FRANCE, LOIR-ET-CHER, TOURAINE;

EID: 0029729536     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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