A new Lower Cretaceous (lower albian) ichthyosaur genus from the clearwater formation, Alberta, Canada

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1037-1053

  Druckenmiller, Patrick S ^a   Maxwell, Erin E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBERTA; ALBERTA , CANADA; CLEARWATER; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MCMURRAY; PALAEOECOLOGY; PELVIC GIRDLE; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS;

ECOLOGY;

ALBIAN; DENTITION; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; REPTILE; SKULL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TYPE SPECIMEN;

ALBERTA; CANADA; FORT MCMURRAY;

PLATYPTERYGIUS; TETRAPODA;

EID: 77958103861     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: 14803313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E10-028     Document Type: Article

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