A relict trematosauroid (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Middle Jurassic of the Junggar Basin (NW China)

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 589-593

  Maisch, Michael W ^a   Matzke, Andreas T ^a   Sun, Ge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; FOSSIL; JURASSIC; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHINA; JURASSIC; NONHUMAN; SKULL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TAXON; TREMATOSAUROID; VERTEBRA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CHINA; FOSSILS;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JUNGGAR BASIN; WORLD; XINJIANG UYGUR;

AMPHIBIA; BRACHYOPIDAE; ILIA; TEMNOSPONDYLI;

EID: 11244287312     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-004-0569-x     Document Type: Article

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