Dental and vertebral morphology of the enigmatic mosasaur Dollosaurus (Reptilia, Mosasauridae) from the lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of southern Sweden

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-25

  Lindgren, Johan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Campanian; Cretaceous; Dollosaurus; Mosasauridae; Prognathodon; Sweden; Teeth; Vertebrae

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645391085     PISSN: 00116297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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