Caecilian viviparity and amniote origins: A reply to Wilkinson and Nussbaum

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 311-315

  Laurin, Michel ^a,c   Reisz, Robert R ^b   Girondot, Marc ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Amniota; Eggs; Evolution; Fossil Record; Gymnophiona; Parsimony; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

AMNIOTA; CAECILIA; GYMNOPHIONA;

EID: 0033959980     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/002229300299651     Document Type: Article

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