New interpretation of the palate of pterosaurs

Anatomical Record

Volumn 293, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 243-258

  Ocombining Double Acute Accentsi, Attila ^a   Prondvai, Edina ^b   Frey, Eberhard ^c   Pohl, Burkhardt ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

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

^d Wyoming Dinosaur Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Choana; Extant phylogenetic bracket; Jurassic pterosaur Dorygnathus; Palate

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANSER; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORYGNATHUS BANTHENSIS; FACIAL BONE; HARD PALATE; MAXILLA; NONHUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; PALATOPLASTY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; ROSTRUM; SOFT PALATE; TOPOGRAPHY; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MAXILLA; PALATE, HARD; PHYLOGENY;

AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); LEPIDOSAURIA; PTERODACTYLOIDEA;

EID: 76149116507     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21053     Document Type: Article

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