An amniote-like skeleton from the early carboniferous of Scotland

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6727, 1999, Pages 508-513

  Paton, R L ^a   Smithson, T R ^b   Clack, J A ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b Cambridge Regional Coll   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS;

ARTICLE; CLAVICLE; FOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; TAXONOMY; UNITED KINGDOM; VERTEBRATE; ZOOLOGY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

AMNIOTA; ANIMALIA; CARBONIFEROUS; ENTOVALVA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033535503     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19071     Document Type: Article

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