The anatomy of the world's largest extinct rodent

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5640, 2003, Pages 1708-1710

  Sánchez Villagra, Marcelo R ^a   Aguilera, Orangel ^b   Horovitz, Inés ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; WETLANDS;

RODENTS;

BIOLOGY;

ANATOMY; BODY MASS; CRANIUM; EVOLUTION; MIOCENE; RODENT;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; FAUNA; FOSSIL; LAGOON; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PHOBEROMYS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SKELETON; SKULL; TOOTH; VENEZUELA; VERTEBRATE; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; BONE AND BONES; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMUR; FORELIMB; FOSSILS; HINDLIMB; HUMERUS; LOCOMOTION; PHYLOGENY; RODENTIA; SKELETON; SKULL; TOOTH; VENEZUELA;

VENEZUELA;

DIPROTODONTIA; HYDROCHAERIS HYDROCHAERIS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141543675     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1089332     Document Type: Article

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