The ossified Meckel's cartilage and internal groove in Mesozoic mammaliaforms: Implications to origin of the definitive mammalian middle ear

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 431-448

  Meng, Jin ^a   Hu, Yaoming ^a,b,c   Wang, Yuanqing ^b   Li, Chuankui ^b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Evolution; Liaoning; Mammalia; Ontogeny; Triconodonts

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; ZHANGHEOTHERIUM;

EID: 0043071268     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2003.00064.x     Document Type: Article

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