First Pliocene record of the madtsoiid snake genus Yurlunggur Scanlon, 1992 from Queensland

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 783-785

  Mackness, B S ^a   Scanlon, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Matsoiidae; Pliocene; Yurlunggur

Indexed keywords

PLIOCENE;

AUSTRALIA;

MATSOIIDAE; YURLUNGGUR;

EID: 0033497118     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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