The Permo-Carboniferous genus Sagenodus and the beginning of modern lungfish

Contributions to Zoology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 9-70

  Schultze, H P ^a,b   Chorn, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dipnoi; Paleoecology; Permo Carboniferous; Phylogeny; Sagenodus; Systematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032325649     PISSN: 00678546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/18759866-06701002     Document Type: Article

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