The auditory region and nasal cavity of oligocene nimravidae (mammalia: Carnivora)

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 830-847

  Joeckel, R M ^a   Peigné, Stéphane ^b   Hunt Jr , Robert M ^c   Skolnick, Robert I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; HOLARCTIC REGION; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; OLIGOCENE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SKULL;

CARNIVORA; CRANIA; EUSMILUS BIDENTATUS; MAMMALIA; NIMRAVIDAE; NIMRAVUS;

EID: 0037627969     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2002)022[0830:TARANC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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