Associated skeletons of a new middle Triassic "rauisuchia" from Brazil

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 389-395

  França, Marco Aurélio G ^a   Ferigolo, Jorge ^b   Langer, Max C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FUNDAÇÃO ZOOBOTÂNICA DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Archosauria; Behavior; Middle Triassic; Rauisuchia; Santa Maria Formation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; PALEOBIOLOGY; PREDATOR; REPTILE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SKELETON; TAPHONOMY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TRIASSIC; TYPE LOCALITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; REPTILE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BRAZIL; FOSSILS; PALEONTOLOGY; REPTILES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BRAZIL; RIO GRANDE DO SUL; SANTA MARIA [RIO GRANDE DU SUL];

ARCHOSAURIA; RAUISUCHIA;

EID: 79955615592     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0782-3     Document Type: Article

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