The skull of the pistosaur Augustasaurus from the middle triassic of Northwestern Nevada

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 577-592

  Rieppel, Olivier ^a   Sander, P Martin ^b   Storrs, Glenn W ^c  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c Cincinnati Museum of Natural History   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENETICS; SKULL; TRIASSIC; VERTEBRATE;

UNITED STATES;

AUGUSTASAURUS; AUGUSTASAURUS HAGDORNI; PISTOSAURUS; PLESIOSAURUS;

EID: 0037136748     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: 19372809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2002)022[0577:TSOTPA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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