A pug-nosed crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6789, 2000, Pages 941-944

  Buckley, Gregory A ^a   Brochu, Christopher A ^b   Krause, David W ^c   Pol, Diego ^d  

^a ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

ALLIGATOR; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FACE; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; JAW; MADAGASCAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SOUTH AMERICA; TAXONOMY; TOOTH;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MADAGASCAR; SKULL; TOOTH;

MADAGASCAR;

ALLIGATOR; DINOSAURIA; ORNITHISCHIA; SYZYGIUM AROMATICUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034702270     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35016061     Document Type: Article

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