Oldest fossil record of gliding in rodents

Nature

Volumn 379, Issue 6564, 1996, Pages 439-441

  Storch, G ^a   Engesser, B ^b   Wuttke, M ^c  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Referat Erdgeschichtliche D   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOMYIDAE; GLIDING; POSTCRANIAL SKELETON; RODENT; TERTIARY;

ASIA; EUROPE; FOSSIL; LOCOMOTION; MEMBRANE; NORTH AMERICA; PLIOCENE; RODENT; SKELETON; TOOTH; UPPER EOCENE;

EOMYIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0029752516     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/379439a0     Document Type: Article

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