The Cenomanian-Turonian (late Cretaceous) radiation of marine squamates (Reptilia): The role of the Mediterranean Tethys

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 179, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 605-622

  Bardet, Nathalie ^a   Houssaye, Alexandra ^a   Rage, Jean Claude ^a   Pereda Suberbiola, Xabier ^b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

"Dolichosaurids"; "Hind limbed" snakes; Mosasauroidea; Palaeobiogeography; Palaeoenvironments; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN BOUNDARY; LIZARD; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SNAKE; TETHYS;

INTERIOR PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

DOLICHOSAURIDAE; MOSASAURIDAE; MOSASAUROIDEA; PACHYOPHIIDAE; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 58049216792     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssgfbull.179.6.605     Document Type: Article

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