A New Morphological Configuration of the Skull and Lower Jaw of Cerritosaurus binsfeldi Price 1946 after the Elimination of Distortions Caused by Taphonomic Processes

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 469-476

  Barberena, Mario Costa ^a,c   Dornelles, José Eduardo Figueiredo ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cerritosaurus; Restoration of lower jaw; Santa Maria Formation; Taphonomic interpretation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346548462     PISSN: 00013765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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