New information about the skull and dentary of the Miocene platypus Obdurodon dicksoni, and a discussion of ornithorhynchid relationships

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1372, 1998, Pages 1063-1079

  Musser, A M ^a   Archer, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mio cene; Monotremata; Obdurodon; Ornithorhynchus; Platypus; Riversleigh

Indexed keywords

MIOCENE; SKULL; TOOTH;

ANIMALIA; MONOTREMATA; OBDURODON; OBDURODON DICKSONI; ORNITHORHYNCHIDAE; ORNITHORHYNCHUS; ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS; PROTOTHERIA;

EID: 0032578203     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0266     Document Type: Article

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