A new trematopid amphibian (temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea) from the upper Pennsylvanian of Western Pennsylvania: Earliest record of terrestrial vertebrates responding to a warmer, drier climate

Annals of Carnegie Museum

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 289-318

  Berman, David S ^a   Henrici, Amy C ^a   Brezinski, David K ^a   Kollar, Albert D ^a  

^a SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fedexia striegeli; Late Pennsylvanian; Southwestern Pennsylvanian; Stratigraphy; Terrestrial tetrapods

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PENNSYLVANIAN; SKULL;

PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; DISSOROPHOIDEA; TEMNOSPONDYLI; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA; VIRGILIA;

EID: 77950196366     PISSN: 00974463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2992/007.078.0401     Document Type: Article

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