Earliest evidence of cynodont burrowing

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1525, 2003, Pages 1747-1751

  Damiani, Ross ^a   Modesto, Sean ^b   Yates, Adam ^c   Neveling, Johann ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d Western Cape Regional Office   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Burrow; Cynodont; Permian Triassic boundary; Synapsid; Thrinaxodon

Indexed keywords

BURROWING; ICHNOLOGY; PERMIAN; SKELETON; TRIASSIC;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BURROWING; CARNIVORE; CYNODONT; EVOLUTION; FLOODPLAIN; FOSSIL; GEOLOGICAL TIME; HISTOLOGY; LAND BIOME; NONHUMAN; PERMIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SKELETON; SOUTH AFRICA; SYNAPSID; THRINAXODON LIORHINUS; TRIASSIC; TRIRACHODON;

KAROO; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SYNAPSIDA; THRINAXODON LIORHINUS;

EID: 0041876452     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2427     Document Type: Article

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