The most basal anomodont therapsid and the primacy of Gondwana in the evolution of the anomodonts

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1417, 1999, Pages 331-337

  Modesto, Sean ^a   Rubidge, Bruce ^a   Welman, Johann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL MUSEUM   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anomodontia; Biogeography; Palaeontology; Phylogeny; Therapsida

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DENTITION; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SOUTH AFRICA; TOOTH; VERTEBRATE; ZYGOMA;

ANIMALIA; ANOMODONTIA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; THERAPSIDA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033593924     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0642     Document Type: Article

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