Phylogenetic approaches toward crocodylian history

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue , 2003, Pages 357-397

  Brochu, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crocodylia; Fossil; Morphology; Phylogeny; Systematics

Indexed keywords

MARINE APPLICATIONS; MORPHOLOGY;

CROCODYLIAN LINEAGES;

EARTH SCIENCES;

CROCODILIAN; PHYLOGENETICS;

EID: 0037753184     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.31.100901.141308     Document Type: Article

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