Skull Anatomy of the Bizarre Crocodylian Mourasuchus nativus (Alligatoridae, Caimaninae)

Anatomical Record

Volumn 296, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 227-239

  Bona, Paula ^a   Degrange, Federico J ^a,b   Fernández, Marta S ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Alligatoridae; Mourasuchus natives; Neogene; Skull anatomy; South America

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROCODILIAN; FRONTAL LOBE; LACRIMAL DUCT; MORPHOLOGY; MOURASUCHUS NATIVUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; CEPHALOMETRY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

ALLIGATORINAE; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); EUSUCHIA;

EID: 84873060011     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22625     Document Type: Article

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