A new plesiosauroid (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Agardhfjellet Formation (Middle Volgian) of central Spitsbergen, Norway

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 92, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 213-234

  Knutsen, Espen M ^a,b   Druckenmiller, Patrick S ^c   Hurum, Jørn H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Haoma Mining NL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL; JURASSIC; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; NEW TAXON; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEONTOLOGY; REPTILE; SKELETON; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARCTIC; NORWAY; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

NETTASTOMA; PLESIOSAURIA; REPTILIA; SAUROPTERYGIA;

EID: 84867689720     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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