An ichthyosaur skull from the Late Jurassic of Svalbard

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 181, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 453-458

  Angst, Delphine ^a   Buffetaut, Eric ^b   Tabouelle, JérôME ^c,d   Tong, Haiyan ^b  

^a Ecole Normale Supérieure ^*  (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^c Musée d'Agglo d'Elbeuf   (France)

^d Société d'Étude des Sciences Naturelles d'Elbeuf   (France)

Author keywords

Ichthyosaur; Jurassic; Skull; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; JURASSIC; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SKULL; TAXONOMY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

AEGIROSAURUS;

EID: 78649374237     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssgfbull.181.5.453     Document Type: Article

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