The potential utility of postnatal skeletal developmental patterns in squamate phylogenetics

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 277-313

  Maisano, Jessica A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ontogeny; Ossification centre; Secondary centre; Sequence unit; Sesamoid; Squamata

Indexed keywords

SPHENODON;

EID: 0036792143     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00033.x     Document Type: Article

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