The seymouriamorph tetrapod Utegenia shpinari from the ?Upper Carboniferous-Lower Permian of Kazakhstan. Part II: Postcranial anatomy and relationships

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 75-93

  Klembara, Jozef ^a   Ruta, Marcello ^b  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Characters; Discosauriscids; Phylogeny; Postcranial anatomy; Seymouriamorphs

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CARBONIFEROUS; CRANIUM; ONTOGENY; PERMIAN; TETRAPOD;

ASIA; EURASIA; KAZAKHSTAN; WEST ASIA;

DISCOSAURISCUS; SEYMOURIA; SEYMOURIAMORPHA; TETRAPODA; UTEGENIA SHPINARI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2542490554     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0263593300000535     Document Type: Article

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