A new traversodontid cynodont from the Santa Maria Formation (Ladinian-Carnian) of southern Brazil, with a phylogenetic analysis of Gondwanan traversodontids

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 529-545

  Abdala, F ^a   Ribeiro, A M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b FUNDAÇÃO ZOOBOTÂNICA DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dental evolution; Gondwana; Middle Upper Triassic; Phylogeny; Traversodontidae

Indexed keywords

BUCCO;

EID: 0347531864     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00096.x     Document Type: Article

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