The last dicynodont: An Australian cretaceous relict

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1518, 2003, Pages 985-993

  Thulborn, Tony ^a,b   Turner, Susan ^a,c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Biostratigraphy; Cretaceous; Dicynodonts; Extinction

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; EXTINCTION; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; REPTILE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DICYNODONT; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; MESOZOIC; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TRIASSIC;

AUSTRALIA;

DICYNODONTIA; DINOSAURIA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; TETRAPODA; THERAPSIDA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038703604     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2296     Document Type: Article

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