A review of the early Late Triassic Krasiejów biota from Silesia, Poland

Palaeontologia Polonica

Volumn 64, Issue , 2007, Pages 3-27

  Dzik, Jerzy ^a,b   Sulej, Tomasz ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Archosaurs; Carnian; Dinosaurs; Flora; Germanic Basin; Keuper; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DINOSAUR; FLORA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; INVERTEBRATE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRIASSIC;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; KRASIEJOW; OPOLSKIE; POLAND; SILESIA;

ALGAE; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CHARACEA; CYCLOTOSAURUS; DINOSAURIA; MASTODONSAURIDAE; MOLLUSCA; PALEORHINUS; PISCES; RAUISUCHIA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 38649087691     PISSN: 00788562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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