A new small short-snouted dyrosaurid (crocodylomorpha, mesoeucrocodylia) from the paleocene of northeastern Colombia

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 139-162

  Hastings, Alexander K ^a   Bloch, Jonathan I ^a   Cadena, Edwin A ^a   Jaramillo, Carlos A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; CRETACEOUS; CROCODILIAN; EOCENE; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOCENE; SKULL; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; ASIA; COLOMBIA; EUROPE; MOROCCO; NORTH AMERICA;

CRANIA; CROCODYLIFORMES; CROCODYLOMORPHA; DYROSAURIDAE; MESOEUCROCODYLIA;

EID: 77949699680     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724630903409204     Document Type: Article

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