Baurusuchid crocodyliforms as theropod mimics: Clues from the skull and appendicular morphology of Stratiotosuchus maxhechti (Upper Cretaceous of Brazil)

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 163, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Riff, Douglas ^a   Kellner, Alexander Wilhelm Armin ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bauru Group; Baurusuchidae; Crocodyliformes; Parasagittal gait; Theropoda

Indexed keywords

CROCODYLIFORMES; CROCODYLOMORPHA; DINOSAURIA; THEROPODA;

EID: 84855837415     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00713.x     Document Type: Article

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