First occurence of a gigantic pliosaurid plesiosaur in the late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of Mexico;Première occurrence d'un plésiosaure pliosauride géant dans le Jurassique supérieur (Kimméridgien) du Mexique

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 271-278

  Buchy, Marie Céline ^a   Frey, Eberhard ^b   Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang ^a   López Oliva, José Guadalupe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Kimmeridgian; Mexico; Palaeobiogeography; Pliosauridae

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; KIMMERIDGIAN; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; VERTEBRATE;

MEXICO; NUEVO LEON STATE;

LIOPLEURODON; PLIOSAURIDAE; SIMOLESTES;

EID: 0042806000     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/174.3.271     Document Type: Article

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