The seymouriamorph tetrapod Ariekanerpeton sigalovi from the Lower Permian of Tadzhikistan. Part II: Postcranial anatomy and relationships

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-93

  Klembara, Jozef ^a   Ruta, Marcello ^b,c  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discosauriscus; Ontogeny; Phylogeny; Postcranial skeleton; Utegenia

Indexed keywords

ONTOGENY; PERMIAN; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; TAJIKISTAN; WEST ASIA; WORLD;

DISCOSAURISCUS; SEYMOURIAMORPHA; TETRAPODA;

EID: 26944469546     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300001243     Document Type: Article

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