A terrestrial vertebrate assemblage from the Late Palaeozoic of central Germany, and its bearing on Lower Permian palaeoenvironments

Fossils and Strata

Volumn , Issue 50, 2004, Pages 113-123

  Sumida, Stuart S ^a   Berman, David S ^b   Eberth, David A ^c   Henrici, Amy C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^c ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diadectomorpha; Dimetrodon; Early Permian; Palaeoenvironments; Seymouria; Terrestrial biostratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMIAN; ROTLIEGENDES; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; VERTEBRATE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

AMPHIBIA; SEYMOURIA; SEYMOURIAMORPHA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3543113209     PISSN: 03009491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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