Paedomorphosis in the shell of fossil and living turtles

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 218, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 399-442

  Kordikova, Elena G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRYO; FOSSIL RECORD; ONTOGENY; SHELL; TURTLE;

TESTUDINES;

EID: 0042027168     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/218/2000/399     Document Type: Article

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