Superfoetative viviparity in a Carboniferous chondrichthyan and reproduction in early gnathostomes

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 587-594

  Grogan, Eileen D ^a   Lund, Richard ^b  

^a SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bear Gulch; Chondrenchelyid; Holocephalan; Matrotrophy

Indexed keywords

HARPAGOFUTUTOR VOLSELLORHINUS; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79951936108     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00653.x     Document Type: Article

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