Ungulate teeth, diets, and climatic changes at the eocene/oligocene boundary

Zoology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 203-220

  Janis, Christine M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artiodactyls; Condylarths; Eocene extinctions; Mammal evolution; Perissodactyls

Indexed keywords

ARTIODACTYLA; BARTONIA; DUCHESNEA; MAMMALIA; UNGULATA;

CLIMATIC CHANGE; DIET; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; EVOLUTION; GEOLOGICAL BOUNDARY; UNGULATE;

EID: 0031398497     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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