Lissamphibian remains from the Purbeck Limestone Group, southern England

Special Papers in Palaeontology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2002, Pages 103-119

  Evans, Susan E ^a   McGowan, Gerard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Albanerpetontidae; Anura; Cretaceous; Microvertebrates; New taxa; Urodela

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043038455     PISSN: 00386804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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