The pachyrhizodontid teleosts from the marine Lower Cretaceous (latest mid to late-albian) sediments of the Eromanga Basin, Queensland, Australia

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 119-148

  Bartholomai, Alan ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Albian; Allaru Formation; Australia; Eromanga Basin; Lower Cretaceous; P. grawi sp. nov.; P. marathonensis; Pachyrhizodontidae; Pachyrhizodus; Queensland; Toolebuc Formation

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; COEXISTENCE; FOSSIL; MARINE SEDIMENT; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY; TELEOST;

AUSTRALIA; EROMANGA BASIN; QUEENSLAND;

PACHYRHIZODONTIDAE; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 84868128464     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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