A complete skull of Allodaposuchus precedens Nopcsa, 1928 (eusuchia) and a reassessment of the morphology of the taxon based on the Romanian remains

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 111-122

  Delfino, Massimo ^a   Codrea, Vlad ^b   Folie, Annelise ^c   Dica, Paul ^b   Godefroit, Pascal ^c   Smith, Thierry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL; MAASTRICHTIAN; MORPHOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; SKELETAL REMAINS; SKULL; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; HATEG BASIN; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TRANSYLVANIAN BASIN; WESTERN EUROPE;

CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); EUSUCHIA;

EID: 42149144645     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[111:ACSOAP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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