Discovery of Middle Jurassic mammals from Siberia

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 789-797

  Averianov, Alexander O ^a   Lopatin, Alexey V ^b   Skutschas, Pavel P ^c   Martynovich, Nikolai V ^d   Leshchinskiy, Sergei V ^e   Rezvyi, Anton S ^c   Krasnolutskii, Sergei A ^f   Fayngertz, Alexey V ^e  

^a ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d Krasnoyarsk Territory Regional Museum   (Russian Federation)

^e TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f Sharypovo Regional Museum   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Bathonian; Dentary; Docodonta; Jurassic; Morganucodon; Siberia

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; JURASSIC; MAMMAL;

EURASIA; SIBERIA;

DOCODONTA; FOSSA (MAMMAL); MAMMALIA;

EID: 29144482741     PISSN: 05677920     EISSN: 17322421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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