First description of skull of Lower Permian Seymouria sanjuanensis (Seymouriamorpha: Seymouriidae) at an early juvenile growth stage

Annals of Carnegie Museum

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-72

  Klembara, Jozef ^a   Berman, David S ^b   Henrici, Amy C ^b   Čerňanský, Andrej ^a   Werneburg, Ralf ^c   Martens, Thomas ^d  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^c Naturhistorisches Museum Schloss Bertholdsburg   (Germany)

^d Museum der Natur   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lower Permian; Ontogeny; Seymouria sanjuanensis; Seymouriamorpha; Skull reconstructions

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE; METAMORPHOSIS; ONTOGENY; PERMIAN; SKULL;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; MORAVIA; THURINGIAN BASIN;

DISCOSAURISCUS; DISCOSAURISCUS PULCHERRIMUS; SEYMOURIA; SEYMOURIAMORPHA; TETRAPODA;

EID: 34249801208     PISSN: 00974463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2992/0097-4463(2007)76[53:FDOSOL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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