Cynodont teeth from the Upper Triassic of New Mexico, USA

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Monatshefte

Volumn , Issue 6, 1999, Pages 331-344

  Lucas, Spencer G ^a   Estep, John W ^a   Heckert, Andrew B ^b   Hunt, Adrian P ^c  

^a NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c Mesalands Dinosaur Museum   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYNODONTIA;

EID: 0042411272     PISSN: 00283630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpm/1999/1999/331     Document Type: Article

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