The Permian mammal-like herbivore Diictodon, the oldest known example of sexually dimorphic armament

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1511, 2003, Pages 173-178

  Sullivan, Gorwin ^a   Reisz, Robert R ^b   Smith, Roger M H ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Amniote; Dicynodont; Herbivorous synapsid; Palaeozoic; Sexual dimorphism; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

HERBIVORE; PERMIAN; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; TETRAPOD;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIICTODON; HERBIVORY; NONHUMAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKULL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; BROSME BROSME; DICYNODONTIA; DIICTODON; MAMMALIA; SYNAPSIDA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037460211     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2189     Document Type: Article

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