Early Cretaceous chelids from Lightning Ridge, New South Wales

Alcheringa

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 375-384

  Smith, Elizabeth T ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c Australian Opal Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Albian; Australia; Chelid pleurodires; Eupleurodira; High latitude; Warm palaeoclimate

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLATITUDE; TAXONOMY; TURTLE;

AUSTRALIA; LIGHTNING RIDGE; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATAGONIA;

CHELIDAE;

EID: 77955627096     PISSN: 03115518     EISSN: 17520754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2010.488117     Document Type: Article

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