Clarifying aetosaur phylogeny requires more fossils, not more trees - Reply to intraorganismal homology, character construction, and the phylogeny of aetosaurian archosaurs (Reptilia, Diapsida)

Systematic Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 253-255

  Heckert, Andrew B ^a   Lucas, Spencer G ^a  

^a Natural History Museum   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; SAURIA;

EID: 0037617918     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150390192744     Document Type: Short Survey

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