Re-building the bridge between mosasaurs and snakes

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 111-132

  Rieppel, Olivier ^a   Zaher, Hussam ^b  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; SNAKE; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0038321870     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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