Comparative morphology of the palate dentition in Proganochelys quenstedti BAUR 1887 from the Upper Triassic of Germany and Chelonian Ancestry

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 195-249

  Kordikova, Elena G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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ANCESTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTITION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; SKULL; TOOTH; TRIASSIC; TURTLE;

GERMANY;

PARAREPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TETRAPODA;

EID: 0042330269     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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