A new mosasauroid (Squamata) from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of Morocco;Un nouveau mosasauroïde (Squamata) du Crétacé supérieur (Turonien) du Maroc

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 607-616

  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; Mosasauroidea; New taxon; Squamata; Turonian

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; CRETACEOUS; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; NEW TAXON; PHYLOGENETICS; TURONIAN; VERTEBRATE;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

MOSASAURIDAE; MOSASAUROIDEA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0842344433     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2003.09.006     Document Type: Article

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