Nearly complete skull of lesothosaurus (dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the upper elliot formation (lower jurassic: Hettangian) of lesotho

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 238-243

  Knoll, Fabien ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINOSAUR; JURASSIC; MORPHOLOGY; SKULL;

LESOTHO;

DINOSAURIA; ORNITHISCHIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035982861     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: 19372809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2002)022[0238:NCSOLD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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