Skeletal development of the temnospondyl Acanthostomatops vorax from the Lower Permian Döhlen Basin of Saxony

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 365-385

  Witzmann, Florian ^a   Schoch, Rainer R ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^b STAATLICHES MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hyobranchium; Metamorphosis; Ontogeny; Postcranium; Rotliegend; Skull; Variability; Zatracheidae

Indexed keywords

METAMORPHOSIS; ONTOGENY; PERMIAN; SKELETAL REMAINS; SKULL; TETRAPOD;

CENTRAL EUROPE; DOHLEN BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; SAXONY;

EID: 33751194387     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593305000155     Document Type: Article

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