A basal mixosaurid ichthyosaur from the Middle Triassic of China

Palaeontology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 869-882

  Jiang, Da Yong ^a   Hao, Wei Chen ^a   Maisch, Michael W ^b   Matzke, Andreas T ^b   Sun, Yuan Lin ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisian; China; Ichthyosauria; Middle Triassic; Mixosauridae; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

DINOSAUR; PHYLOGENY; TRIASSIC;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

ANISIA; ICHTHYOSAURIA; MIXOSAURIDAE; MIXOSAURUS; MIXOSAURUS MAOTAIENSIS; PHALARODON;

EID: 22444435680     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00481.x     Document Type: Article

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