A new polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of Morocco;Un nouveau plésiosaure polycotylidé du Crétacé supérieur (Turonien) du Maroc

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 307-315

  Bardet, Nathalie ^a   Suberbiola, Xabier Pereda ^a,b   Jalil, Nour Eddine ^c  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Late Cretaceous; Morocco; New taxon; Plesiosauria; Polycotylidae; Turonian

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; NEW TAXON;

MOROCCO;

PLESIOSAURIA; POLYCOTYLIDAE; THILILUA LONGICOLLIS;

EID: 0344287157     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0683(03)00063-0     Document Type: Article

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