New data on the postcranial anatomy of the California mosasaur Plotosaurus bennisoni (Camp, 1942) (Upper Cretaceous: Maastrichtian), and the taxonomic status of P. tuckeri (Camp, 1942)

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1043-1054

  Lindgren, Johan ^a,d   Caldwell, Michael W ^b   Jagt, John W M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c NATUURHISTORISCH MUSEUM MAASTRICHT   (Netherlands)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CRANIUM; MAASTRICHTIAN; MORPHOLOGY; REPTILE; SKELETON; TAXONOMY;

EID: 58249095034     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634-28.4.1043     Document Type: Article

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