Cranial anatomy and phylogenetic position of Suminia getmanovi, a basal anomodont (Amniota: Therapsida) from the Late Permian of Eastern Europe

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 329-373

  Rybczynski, Natalia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomodontia; Palaeontology; Permian; Systematics; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

AMNIOTA; ANOMODONTIA; DICYNODONTIA; THERAPSIDA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034357697     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb01634.x     Document Type: Article

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