The fossil record of North American Mammals: Evidence for a Paleocene Evolutionary radiation

Systematic Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 107-118

  Alroy, John ^a,b  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass; Cenozoic; Cretaceous; Diversification; Extinction; Mammalia; Molecular clock

Indexed keywords

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; THERIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MAMMAL; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MAMMALS; NORTH AMERICA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033085037     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351599260472     Document Type: Article

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