The skull of an early Late Triassic aetosaur and the evolution of the stagonolepidid archosaurian reptiles

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 158, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 860-881

  Sulej, T ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Braincase; Carnian; Olfactory lobes; Ontogeny

Indexed keywords

AETOSAURUS; ARCHOSAURIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 77952917770     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00566.x     Document Type: Article

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