Crocodilians of the Crato Formation: Evidence for enigmatic species

The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Window into an Ancient World

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 463-474

  Frey, Eberhard Dino ^a   Salisbury, Steven W ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511535512.017     Document Type: Chapter

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