A juvenile pliosauroid plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Cretaceous of South Australia

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 154-162

  Kear, Benjamin P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTIAN; AQUATIC ORGANISM; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRANIUM; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; JUVENILE; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOMETRY; ONTOGENY; PALEOECOLOGY; REPTILE; SKELETAL REMAINS;

ANDAMOOKA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

LEPTOCLEIDUS; REPTILIA; SAUROPTERYGIA;

EID: 33846503778     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2007)81[154:AJPPRS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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