Earliest evidence of dinosaurs from Central Gondwana

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 703-709

  Raath, M A ^a,b  

^a PORT ELIZABETH MUSEUM   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dinosaur tracks; Molteno; Prosauropod; Rhynchosaur; South Africa; Triassic; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

DINOSAUR; GONDWANA; PROSAUROPOD; RHYNCHOSAUR; TRACKWAY; TRIASSIC;

SOUTH AFRICA, CAPE PROVINCE; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0030426339     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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