A new eusuchian crocodyliform with novel cranial integument and its significance for the origin and evolution of crocodylia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Holliday, Casey M ^a   Gardner, Nicholas M ^b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEGISUCHUS; AEGYPTOSUCHUS; AEGYPTOSUCHUS PEYERI; AFRICA; ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CENOMANIAN; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE; EOSUCHUS; EPIPTERYGOIDS; EUSUCHIAN CROCODYLIFORM; EVOLUTION; HYLAEOCHAMPSA; INTEGUMENT; JAW; LAGANOSUCHUS; LATEROSPHENOIDS; LEIDYOSUCHUS; MOROCCO; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; STOMATOSUCHUS; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; CROCODILIAN; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROCODYLIFORMES; EUSUCHIA; TETRAPODA;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; MOROCCO; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SKULL;

EID: 84856492661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030471     Document Type: Article

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