The jaw function and adaptive radiation of the dicynodont mammal-like reptiles of the Karoo basin of South Africa

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 349-384

  Cox, C Barry ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Evolution; Palaeoecology; Permian; Therapsida

Indexed keywords

CISTECEPHALUS; DICYNODON; DIICTODON; EQUISETALES; FILICOPHYTA; KINGORIA; LYSTROSAURUS; MAMMALIA; PRISTERODON; REPTILIA; THERAPSIDA;

EID: 0031613683     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb02534.x     Document Type: Article

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