Mid-Tertiary elapid snakes (Squamata, Colubroidea) from Riversleigh, northern Australia: Early steps in a continent-wide adaptive radiation;Serpents élapidés (Squamata, Colubroidea) du Tertiaire moyen de Riversleigh, Nord de l'Australie: Étapes précoces d'une radiation adaptive répandue sur un continent entier

Geobios

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 573-601

  Scanlon, John D ^a   Lee, Michael S Y ^b   Archer, Michael ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Colubroidea; Elapidae; Fossil snakes; Hydrophiinae; Mid tertiary; Riversleigh

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CRANIUM; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENETICS; SNAKE; TAXONOMY; TERTIARY;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND; RIVERSLEIGH;

COLUBROIDEA; ELAPIDAE; HYDROPHIINAE; INCONGRUELAPS ITERATUS; LATICAUDA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0142063070     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(03)00056-1     Document Type: Article

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