First record of atoposauridae (Crocodylia: Metamesosuchia) in the upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of northwest Germany

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 205, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 393-411

  Thies, Detlev ^a   Windolf, Raymund ^b   Mudroch, Alexander ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CROCODILIAN; JURASSIC; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

GERMANY;

EID: 27844468235     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/205/1997/393     Document Type: Article

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