Marine reptiles from the Lower Cretaceous of South Australia: Elements of a high-latitude cold-water assemblage

Palaeontology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 837-856

  Kear, Benjamin P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cold climates; High latitudes; Ichthyosauria; Lower Cretaceous; Plesiosauria; South Australia

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; REPTILE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; CHELONIIDAE; CHIMAERIDAE; CHONDRICHTHYES; CIMOLIASAURIDAE; CRYPTOCLIDIDAE; DINOSAURIA; DIPNOI; ELASMOSAURIDAE; OPHTHALMOSAURIDAE; PLIOSAURIDAE; POLYCOTYLIDAE; REPTILIA; RHOMALEOSAURIDAE; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33745828285     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00569.x     Document Type: Article

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