Early Cretaceous multituberculate mammals from the Kuwajima Formation (Tetori Group), central Japan

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 379-390

  Kusuhashi, Nao ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early Cretaceous; Eobaataridae; Hakusanobaatar; Japan; Kuwajima Formation; Mammalia; Multituberculata; Tedoribaatar; Tetori Group

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CRETACEOUS; DENTITION; FOSSIL; MAMMAL; PALEONTOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; ISHIKAWA; JAPAN;

MAMMALIA; MULTITUBERCULATA;

EID: 53249127358     PISSN: 05677920     EISSN: 17322421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4202/app.2008.0302     Document Type: Article

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