Mammal-like occlusion in conodonts

Paleobiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 58-74

  Donoghue, Philip C J ^a,b   Purnell, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA; CONODONTA;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FEEDING MECHANISM;

EID: 0033058286     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373-25.1.58     Document Type: Article

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