Extant lizard tracks: Variation and implications for paleoichnology

Ichnos:an International Journal of Plant and Animal

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 187-196

  Kubo, Tai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lizard; Locomotion; Neoichnology; Phylogeny; Track; Trackway

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; ICHNOLOGY; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY; TRACKWAY;

CALUMMA PARSONII; CHAMAELEONIDAE; EUBLEPHARIS MACULARIUS; FURCIFER PARDALIS; GEKKONIDAE; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA; TILIQUA SCINCOIDES;

EID: 77956600485     PISSN: 10420940     EISSN: 15635236     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10420940.2010.502500     Document Type: Article

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