Subdivisions, fusions and extended sutural areas of dermal skull bones in Discosauriscus Kuhn (Seymouriamorpha)

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 223, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 317-349

  Klembara, Jozef ^a   Tomášik, Andrej ^b   Kathe, Wolfgang ^b  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; SKULL; TETRAPOD;

DISCOSAURISCUS; SEYMOURIAMORPHA;

EID: 0041309656     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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