Closure of neurocentral sutures during crocodilian ontogeny: Implications for maturity assessment in fossil archosaurs

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-62

  Brochu, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ALLIGATOR SINENSIS; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROCODYLUS ACUTUS; OSTEOLAEMUS TETRASPIS;

EID: 0030306119     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: 19372809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724634.1996.10011283     Document Type: Article

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