Terrestrial turtle fossils from New Zealand refloat moa's ark

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 1, 2011, Pages 72-76

  Worthy, Trevor H ^a   Tennyson, Alan J D ^b   Hand, Suzanne J ^a   Godthelp, Henk ^a   Scofield, R Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND TE PAPA TONGAREWA   (New Zealand)

^c CANTERBURY MUSEUM   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOSSIL RECORD; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; TURTLE; VICARIANCE;

NEW ZEALAND;

CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 79952793840     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/CH-10-113     Document Type: Article

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