A new basal pterosaur genus from the Upper Triassic of the Northern Calcareous Alps of Switzerland

Palaeontology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1081-1090

  Fröbisch, Nadia B ^a   Fröbisch, Jörg ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caviramus schesaplanensis; Eudimorphodon; LateTriassic; Norian; Northern Calcareous Alps; Pterosaur; Rhaetian; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

BONE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NORIAN; PTEROSAUR; RHAETIAN; TOOTH; TRIASSIC;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EUDIMORPHODON; PTEROSAURIA;

EID: 33748198649     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00581.x     Document Type: Article

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