Ontogeny and phylogeny of the mesopodial skeleton in mosasauroid reptiles

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 407-436

  Caldwell, Michael W ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aigialosaurs; Mosasaurs; Paedomorphosis; Squamates

Indexed keywords

MOSASAUROIDEA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0030529863     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/zjls.1996.0027     Document Type: Article

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