Cainozoic turtles from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 413-421

  White, A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Palaeoecology; Riversleigh; Turtles

Indexed keywords

CHELID; PALAEOECOLOGY; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; TURTLE;

AUSTRALIA, QUEENSLAND, RIVERSLEIGH;

EID: 0031471465     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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