A review of the fossil record of turtles of the clade Pan-Carettochelys

Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-33

  Joyce, Walter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Carettochelyidae; Carettochelyinae; Paleoecology; Pan Carettochelys; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901249402     PISSN: 0079032X     EISSN: 21624135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3374/014.055.0102     Document Type: Article

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