Phylogenetic relationships among extinct and extant turtles: The position of pleurodira and the effects of the fossils on rooting crown-group turtles

Contributions to Zoology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 93-106

  Sterli, Juliana ^a  

^a MUSEO PALEONTOLÓGICO EGIDIO FERUGLIO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Molecules; Morphology; Phylogeny; Testudinata; Testudines

Indexed keywords

AMNIOTA; CHELONIOIDEA; CRYPTODIRA; PLEURODIRA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 77958091928     PISSN: 13834517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/18759866-07903002     Document Type: Article

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