Molar tooth diversity, disparity, and ecology in cenozoic ungulate radiations

Science

Volumn 274, Issue 5292, 1996, Pages 1489-1492

  Jernvall, Jukka ^a,b   Hunter, John P ^b,d   Fortelius, Mikael ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; MAMMAL; MOLAR TOOTH; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; ARTIODACTYLA; DIET; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MAMMALS; MOLAR; ODONTOMETRY; PALEODONTOLOGY; PERISSODACTYLA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOOTH CROWN;

ARTIODACTYLA; CONDYLARTHRA; MAMMALIA; PERISSODACTYLA; UNGULATA;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CAINOZOIC; DIVERSITY; HERBIVORE; MOLAR; TOOTH; UNGULATE;

EID: 0029659558     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5292.1489     Document Type: Article

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38. We thank the staff of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, for help and access to their collections of fossil ungulates, and J. Alroy, V. Haukisalmi, W. L. Jungers, D. W. Krause, J. Lindström, E. Ranta, and P. C. Wright for comments or advice on this paper. Funding was provided to J.J. by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and to J.P.H. by NSF grant IBN9624939. This is a contribution from the Valio Armas Korvenkontio Unit of Dental Anatomy in Relation to Evolutionary Theory.