The First Freshwater Mosasauroid (Upper Cretaceous, Hungary) and a New Clade of Basal Mosasauroids

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Makádi, László ^a   Caldwell, Michael W ^b   Osi, Attila ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; CLADISTICS; FRESHWATER SPECIES; HUNGARY; LIMB; LIZARD; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; OSTEOLOGY; PANNONIASAURUS INEXPECTATUS; PELVIS; PLESIOMORPHY; PLIOPLATECARPUS; SKULL; TAIL;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; FOSSILS; FRESH WATER; HUNGARY; LIZARDS; OSTEOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); DINOSAURIA; MOSASAUROIDEA; MYA; PISCES; PLIOPLATECARPUS; SQUAMATA; TESTUDINES; YAGUARASAURUS;

EID: 84871269070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051781     Document Type: Article

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