Marine vertebrates from the 'middle' Cretaceous (early Cenomanian) of South India

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 539-552

  Underwood, Charlie J ^a   Goswami, Anjali ^b   Prasad, G V R ^c   Verma, Omkar ^d   Flynn, John J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^d INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; CRETACEOUS; FAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; NEW SPECIES; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SKELETAL REMAINS; TURONIAN; VERTEBRATE;

CAUVERY BASIN; INDIA;

CHONDRICHTHYES; HEXANCHIFORMES; LAMNIFORMES; PLATYPTERYGIUS; SQUALIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79957617859     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: 19372809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2011.574518     Document Type: Article

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