On the cranial morphology of the basal therapsids burnetia and proburnetia (therapsida: Burnetiidae)

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 257-267

  Rubidge, Bruce S ^a   Sidor, Christian A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY; VERTEBRATE;

COXIELLA; THERAPSIDA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035982864     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: 19372809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2002)022[0257:OTCMOT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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