From fins to limbs to fins: Limb evolution in fossil marine reptiles

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 236-249

  Caldwell, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ichthyosaurs; Mosasaurs; Ontogeny; Phylogeny; Plesiosaurs

Indexed keywords

BONE DEVELOPMENT; CARTILAGE CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; FOSSIL; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; LIMB MALFORMATION; LIZARD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OSSIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SKELETON;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CARTILAGE; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; FOSSILS; LIZARDS; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES;

ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; SAURIA;

EID: 0037108132     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.10773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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