The fossil record of Cretaceous tetrapods

Palaios

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 161-165

  Fara, Emmanuel ^a   Benton, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL RECORD; TETRAPOD;

EID: 0034035170     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1669/0883-1351(2000)015<0161:TFROCT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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