A primitive anteosaurid dinocephalin from China - Implications for the distribution of earliest therapsid faunas

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 252-253

  Li, Jinling ^a   Rubidge, Bruce S ^b   Cheng, Zhengwu ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTEOSAURID; DINOCEPHALIAN; REPTILE; THERAPSID;

CHINA;

EID: 0030450178     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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