Continental fossil vertebrates from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) Alcântara Formation, Brazil, and their relationship with contemporaneous faunas from North Africa

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 79-92

  Candeiro, Carlos Roberto A ^a   Fanti, Federico ^b   Therrien, François ^c   Lamanna, Matthew C ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY   (Canada)

^d SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazil; Cretaceous; Faunal exchange; North Africa; Paleobiogeography

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FAUNA; FISH; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TAXONOMY; VERTEBRATE;

BRAZIL; NORTH AFRICA;

AVES; CHELIDAE; CROCODYLIFORMES; DINOSAURIA; ELASMOBRANCHII; LEPIDOTES; STEPHANODUS; TESTUDINES; THEROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79953765628     PISSN: 1464343X     EISSN: 1464343X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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