Late Cretaceous neosuchian crocodiles from the Sultanate of Oman

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 267-275

  Buscalioni, Angela D ^a   Schulp, Anne S ^b,c   Jagt, John W M ^b   Hanna, Samir S ^d   Hartman, Axel F ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b NATUURHISTORISCH MUSEUM MAASTRICHT   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^e SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Crocodyliformes; Late Campanian Maastrichtian; Late Cretaceous; Neosuchia; Sultanate of Oman; Trematochampsidae

Indexed keywords

CAMPANIAN; CROCODILIAN; FOSSIL; MAASTRICHTIAN; MORPHOLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

ALLIGATOR; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1942530578     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2003.12.004     Document Type: Article

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