The stapes and middle ear of the Permo-Carboniferous tetrapod Sclerocephalus

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Monatshefte

Volumn , Issue 11, 2002, Pages 671-680

  Schoch, Rainer R ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; MORPHOLOGY; PERMIAN; TETRAPOD;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; SCLEROCEPHALUS; SCLEROCEPHALUS HAEUSERI; TETRAPODA;

EID: 0041689757     PISSN: 00283630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpm/2002/2002/671     Document Type: Article

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