A marine stem-tetrapod from the devonian of western north america

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Swartz, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ETHMOID SKULL; EVOLUTION; FANG; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHY; JAW; MARINE SPECIES; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; SKULL ROOF; TINIRAU CLACKAE; TOOTH; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSILS; MORPHOGENESIS; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84858649334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033683     Document Type: Article

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