Combined support for wholesale taxic atavism in gavialine crocodylians

Systematic Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 403-422

  Gatesy, John ^a   Amato, George ^b   Norell, Mark ^c   DeSalle, Rob ^c   Hayashi, Cheryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aves; Combined evidence; Crocodylia; Fossil; Gavial; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); GAVIALINAE; GAVIALIS GANGETICUS; REPTILIA; TOMISTOMA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038785934     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150390197037     Document Type: Article

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