Reassessment of a putative fossil Stinkpot (Kinosternidae: Sternotherus) from the late Miocene (Clarendonian) of Kansas

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 234-237

  Bourque, Jason R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINOSTERNIDAE; KINOSTERNON; MYA; STERNOTHERUS; STERNOTHERUS ODORATUS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 79959278103     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1670/10-095.1     Document Type: Article

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