New Cretaceous lungfishes (Dipnoi, Ceratodontidae) from western North America

@article{Frederickson2016NewCL,  title={New Cretaceous lungfishes (Dipnoi, Ceratodontidae) from western North America},  author={Joseph A. Frederickson and Richard L. Cifelli},  journal={Journal of Paleontology},  year={2016},  volume={91},  pages={146 - 161},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:131962612}}
Four new species of the form genus Ceratodus are described from the Cretaceous of the Western Interior, considerably expanding fossil representation of post-Triassic dipnoans in North America, to model taxonomic and morphologic diversity.

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