Two new balbarine kangaroos and lower molar evolution within the subfamily

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 269-280

  Cooke, B N ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Balbarinae; Cuspid homology; Kangaroo; Lophodonty; Nambaroo; Riversleigh; Wururoo

Indexed keywords

BALBARINE; DENTITION; KANGAROO; LOPHODONTY; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; NAMBAROO; OLIGOCENE; WURUROO;

AUSTRALIA, QUEENSLAND, RIVERSLEIGH;

EID: 0031458082     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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