Soft-shelled turtles (Trionychidae) from the Bissekty Formation (Late Cretaceous: Late Turonian) of Uzbekistan: Shell-based taxa

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 41, Issue , 2013, Pages 55-64

  Danilov, Igor G ^a   Vitek, Natasha S ^b  

^a ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Assemblage; Kazakhstan; Middle Asia; Testudines; Turtles

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEONTOLOGY; SKULL; TAXONOMY; TURONIAN; TURTLE;

KAZAKHSTAN; UZBEKISTAN;

TESTUDINES; TRIONYCHIDAE; TRIONYX;

EID: 84874572607     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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