Unusual tetrapod teeth from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, Arizona, USA

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1339-1345

  Irmis, Randall B ^a,b   Parker, William G ^c  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; STRATIGRAPHY;

KRATEROKHEIRODON COLBERTI; PALEONTOLOGY; TETRAPOD TEETH; TRIASSIC;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

TOOTH; TRIASSIC;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 30444453109     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e05-031     Document Type: Article

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