Late Devonian tetrapod remains from Red Hill, Pennsylvania, USA: How much diversity?

Acta Zoologica

Volumn 90, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 306-317

  Daeschler, Edward B ^a   Clack, Jennifer A ^b   Shubin, Neil H ^c,d  

^a ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catskill Formation; Famennian; Tetrapodomorpha; Whatcheeriidae

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; EVOLUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TETRAPOD;

NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; RED HILL; UNITED STATES;

TETRAPODA; WHATCHEERIIDAE;

EID: 66149130981     PISSN: 00017272     EISSN: 14636395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.2008.00361.x     Document Type: Article

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