Loss of carpal elements in crocodilian limb evolution: Morphogenetic model corroborated by palaeobiological data

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 133-144

  Buscalioni, Angela D ^a   Ortega, Francisco ^a   Rasskin Gutman, Diego ^b   Pérez Moreno, Bernardino P ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Archosauria; Crocodylia; Embryology; Heterochrony; Limb evolution; Palaeontology

Indexed keywords

CARPAL ELEMENTS; CRETACEOUS; CROCODILIAN; EVOLUTION; LIMB; PAEDOMORPHOSIS;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ARCHOSAURIA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); EUSUCHIA; HAECKELIA; TETRAPODA;

EID: 0030868681     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1997.0145     Document Type: Article

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