A new symmetrodont mammal from China and its implications for mammalian evolution

Nature

Volumn 390, Issue 6656, 1997, Pages 137-142

  Hu, Yaoming ^a   Wang, Yuanqinq ^a,b   Luo, Zhexi ^b   Li, Chuankui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; MESOZOIC; SYMMETRODONT; THERIA;

ARTICLE; COCHLEA; DENTITION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; MAMMAL; MANDIBLE; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; SKULL;

ANIMALS; CHINA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MAMMALS; MARSUPIALIA; PHYLOGENY; SKELETON;

CHINA, LIAONING PROVINCE;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; THERIA;

EID: 0030714603     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/36505     Document Type: Article

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