Cranial structure in the Devonian lungfish Soederberghia groenlandica and its implications for the interrelationships of 'rhynchodipterids'

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 179-198

  Friedman, Matt ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aina dal formation; Dipnoi; East greenland; Famennian; Fleurantiidae; Griphognathus; Rhynchodipteridae

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; DEVONIAN; FISH; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

DIPNOI; RHYNCHODIPTERIDAE;

EID: 56549085284     PISSN: 17556910     EISSN: 17556929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S175569100700607X     Document Type: Article

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