A new dicynodont-archosaur assemblage from the Late Triassic (Carnian) of Poland

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Volumn 101, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 261-269

  Sulej, Tomasz ^a   Bronowicz, Robert ^b   Tałanda, Mateusz ^b   Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

phytosaur; synapsid; Wo niki

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; REPTILE; SKELETAL REMAINS; TETRAPOD; TRIASSIC;

POLAND; SLASKIE; WOZNIKI;

BIVALVIA; CHONDRICHTHYES; CONCHOSTRACA; SYNAPSIDA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79959465676     PISSN: 17556910     EISSN: 17556929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755691011020123     Document Type: Article

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