A Middle Jurassic 'sphenosuchian' from China and the origin of the crocodylian skull

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 7003, 2004, Pages 1021-1024

  Clark, James M ^a   Xu, Xing ^b,d   Forster, Catherine A ^c   Wang, Yuan ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

CROCODYLIAN SKULL; FOSSILS; MIDDLE JURASSIC EPOCH;

BIODIVERSITY;

CROCODILIAN; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; JURASSIC; SKULL;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOSSIL; JURASSIC; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; CHINA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; JAW; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; TIME FACTORS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMALIA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROCODYLOMORPHA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4344692219     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02802     Document Type: Article

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