The cranial anatomy of Discosauriscus Kuhn, a seymouriamorph tetrapod from the Lower Permian of the Boskovice Furrow (Czech Republic)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1351, 1997, Pages 257-302

  Klembara, Jozef ^a  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DISCOSAURISCUS; DISCOSAURISCUS PULCHERRIMUS; REPTILIA; SEYMOURIA; SEYMOURIAMORPHA; TETRAPODA;

CRANIAL ANATOMY; DISCOSAURISCUS; PERMIAN; SEYMOURIAMORPH; TETRAPOD;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 0030783080     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0021     Document Type: Article

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