Cretaceous crocodyliforms from the sahara

ZooKeys

Volumn 28, Issue SPEC. ISSUE 4, 2009, Pages 1-143

  Sereno, Paul C ^a   Larsson, Hans C E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crocodylia; Crocodyliforms; Metasuchia; Notosuchia

Indexed keywords

CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROCODYLIFORMES;

EID: 77951047757     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.28.325     Document Type: Article

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