Occurrence of the southernmost South American ichthyosaur (Middle Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous), Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Southernmost Chile

Palaios

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-73

  Shultz, Michael R ^a   Fildani, Andrea ^a   Suarez, Mario ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE HISTORIA NATURAL   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; JURASSIC; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING;

CHILE;

DINOSAURIA; ESPERANZA; ICHTHYOSAURIA;

EID: 0037293891     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1669/0883-1351(2003)018<0069:OOTSSA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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