Carettochelyine turtle from the Neogene of Europe

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 2, 2004, Pages 406-411

  Joyce, Walter G ^a   Klein, Nicole ^b   Mörs, Thomas ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institut fur Palaontologie   (Germany)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; NEOGENE; TURTLE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; HAMBACH; RHINELAND-PALATINATE;

TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2442600272     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/CH-03-172R     Document Type: Article

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