Earliest known crown-group salamanders

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6930, 2003, Pages 424-428

  Gao, Ke Qin ^a,b   Shubin, Neil H ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES;

BIOLOGY;

DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL; JURASSIC;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; CHINA; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HYPOTHESIS; JURASSIC; MESOZOIC; MONGOLIA; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALAMANDER; TOOTH CROWN; VOLCANIC ASH;

ANIMALS; CHINA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; SKELETON; TIME FACTORS; URODELA;

CHINA;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANDRIAS; CAUDATA; CRYPTOBRANCHIDAE; CRYPTOBRANCHUS; CRYPTOBRANCHUS ALLEGANIENSIS; FRAXINUS; HYNOBIIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037468807     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01491     Document Type: Article

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