The Pleistocene serpent Wonambi and the early evolution of snakes

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6768, 2000, Pages 416-420

  Scanlon, John D ^a,b   Lee, Michael S Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SNAKE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; SNAKES;

AUSTRALIA;

MADTSOIIDAE; PACHYRHACHIS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; WONAMBI;

EID: 0034719448     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35000188     Document Type: Article

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