An enigmatic new crocodile from the upper cretaceous of madagascar

Special Papers in Palaeontology

Volumn 60, Issue , 1999, Pages 149-175

  Buckley, Gregory A ^a   Brochu, Christopher A ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

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