First record of live birth in Cretaceous ichthyosaurs: Closing an 80 million year gap

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Maxwell, Erin E ^a   Caldwell, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Diapsids; Ichthyosaurs; Viviparity

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; VIVIPARITY;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CRETACEOUS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SKULL; VERTEBRA;

ICHTHYOSAURIA; SAURIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0042030797     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0029     Document Type: Article

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