THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN OF THE TRIASSIC FISH <em>SAURICHTHYS</em> (ACTINOPTERYGII) AND ITS STRATIGRAPHICAL SIGNIFICANCE

The Norian beds of the Southern Calcareous Alps have yielded at least four species belonging to Saurichthys. Their vertebral column has large praezygapophyses, which, in each of these nominai species, at­tain a different relative length. The latter is inversely proportional to age: in fact, the youn...

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Main Author: ANDREA TINTORI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2017-09-01
Series:Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/9049