The skull and the palaeoecological significance of Labidosaurus hamatus, a captorhinid reptile from the Lower Permian of Texas

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 237-262

  Modesto, Sean P ^a,c   Scott, Diane M ^b   Berman, David S ^a   Müller, Johannes ^b   Reisz, Robert R ^b  

^a SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Captorhinidae; Herbivory; Reptilia

Indexed keywords

CAPTORHINIDAE; REPTILIA; TETRAPODA;

EID: 33846617873     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00242.x     Document Type: Review

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