Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) marine reptiles from the Adaffa Formation, NW Saudi Arabia

Geological Magazine

Volumn 145, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 648-654

  Kear, B P ^a,b   Rich, T H ^c   Ali, M A ^d   Al Mufarrih, Y A ^d   Matiri, A H ^d   Masary, A M ^d   Attia, Y ^d  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^d SAUDI GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arabian Peninsula; Late Cretaceous; Marine reptiles; Palaeobiogeography; Tethys

Indexed keywords

ARABIAN PENINSULA; LATE CRETACEOUS; MARINE REPTILES; PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; TETHYS;

CAMPANIAN; CRETACEOUS; FAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; REPTILE; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; SAUDI ARABIA;

BOTHREMYDIDAE; CROCODYLIFORMES; DYROSAURIDAE; ELASMOSAURIDAE; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; VARANOIDEA;

EID: 54749088389     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756808005062     Document Type: Article

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