The age and identity of an ichthyosaur reputedly from the Purbeck Limestone Group, Lower Cretaceous, Dorset, southern England

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 699-709

  Ensom, P C ^a   Clements, R G ^b   Feist Burkhardt, S ^c   Milner, A R ^c   Chitolie, J ^c   Jeffery, P A ^d   Jones, C ^c  

^a University of Leicester ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ichthyosaur; Lower Cretaceous; Ophthalmosauridae; Palynology; Purbeck Limestone Group; Reptilia

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; MESOZOIC; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PALYNOLOGY; REPTILE; SKELETON; TAXONOMY;

DORSET [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; OPHTHALMOSAURIDAE; REPTILIA;

EID: 64549133371     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2008.12.005     Document Type: Article

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