A two-headed reptile from the Cretaceous of China

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 80-82

  Buffetaut, Eric ^a   Li, Jianjun ^b   Tong, Haiyan ^a   Zhang, He ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Beijing Natural History Museum   (China)

^c Shenzhen Paleontological Museum   (China)

Author keywords

Axial bifurcation; China; Choristodera; Cretaceous; Fossil; Malformation

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL RECORD; NEONATE; REPTILE; SKELETON;

ARTICLE; CHINA; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SKELETON; ANIMAL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FOSSIL; HEAD; NECK;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LIAONING; YIXIAN;

CHORISTODERA; REPTILIA;

ANIMALS; CHINA; FOSSILS; HEAD; NECK; REPTILES;

EID: 34249858586     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0580     Document Type: Article

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