New saurichthyid actinopterygian fishes from the Anisian (Middle Triassic) of southwestern China

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 581-614

  Wu, Feixiang ^a,b   Sun, Yuanlin ^a   Xu, Guanghui ^a,b   Hao, Weicheng ^a   Jiang, Dayong ^a   Sun, Zuoyu ^a  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Actinopterygii; Anisian; China; Guizhou; Saurichthyidae; Sinosaurichthys; Triassic; Yunnan

Indexed keywords

ANISIAN; FISH; HABITAT; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; SKELETON; TRIASSIC;

CHINA; GUIZHOU; YUNNAN;

ACTINOPTERYGII; ANISIA; PISCES; SAURICHTHYS;

EID: 80053124547     PISSN: 05677920     EISSN: 17322421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4202/app.2010.0007     Document Type: Article

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