Early triassic temnospondyls of the Czatkowice 1 tetrapod assemblage

Palaeontologia Polonica

Volumn 65, Issue , 2009, Pages 31-77

  Shishkin, Mikhail A ^a   Sulej, Tomasz ^b  

^a PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Karst; Poland; Temnospondyli; Triassic

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; KARST; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY; TRIASSIC;

CZATKOWICE; MALOPOLSKIE; POLAND;

AMPHIBIA; BRACHYOPIDAE; MASTODONSAURIDAE; PAROTOSUCHUS; TEMNOSPONDYLI; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 76849084680     PISSN: 00788562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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