Ontogeny of the palatoquadrate and adjacent lateral cranial wall of the endocranium in prehatching Alligator mississippiensis (Archosauria: Crocodylia)

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 644-658

  Klembara, Jozef ^a  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Alligator mississippiensis; Cranium; Ontogeny; Palatoquadrate; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SKULL;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; OSTEOGENESIS; SKULL;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ARCHOSAURIA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); METATHERIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 8744239284     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10266     Document Type: Article

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