Assessing content and bias in South African Permo-Triassic Karoo tetrapod fossil collections

Palaeontologia Africana

Volumn 44, Issue , 2009, Pages 13-20

  Nicolas, Merrill ^a   Rubidge, Bruce S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Beaufort Group; Digitized data; Fossil database

Indexed keywords

TETRAPODA;

EID: 84991819433     PISSN: 00788554     EISSN: 24104418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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