Evidence that monotremes and ausktribosphenids are not sistergroups

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 466-469

  Rich, Thomas H ^a   Flannery, Timothy F ^b   Trusler, Peter ^c   Kool, Lesley ^d   Vickers Rich, Patricia ^d   Van Klaveren, Nicholas A ^d  

^a MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENTITION; MAMMAL; MONOTREME; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; TOOTH;

MAMMALIA; MONOTREMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035982791     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: 19372809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2002)022[0466:ETMAAA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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