The Cuban Oxfordian herpetofauna in the Caribbean Seaway

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 240, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 343-371

  Gasparini, Zulma ^a,b   Iturralde Vinent, Manuel A ^a,c  

^a Museo de la Plata ^*

^b MUSEO DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^c Museo Nacional de Historia Natural   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Caribbean Seaway; Cuba; Oxfordian; Reptiles

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPTILE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

DINOSAURIA; GENIPA AMERICANA; INVERTEBRATA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 33749255645     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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