Implications of Deltatheridium specimens for early marsupial history

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6710, 1998, Pages 459-463

  Rougier, Guillermo W ^a,b   Wible, John R ^a,c   Novacek, Michael J ^b  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; EVOLUTION;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTORY; MANDIBLE; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; TAXONOMY; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; JAW; MARSUPIALIA; MONGOLIA; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; TOOTH;

MONGOLIA;

DELTATHERIDIUM; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; THERIA;

EID: 0032480979     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/24856     Document Type: Article

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