A morphological analysis of marsupial mammal higher-level phylogenetic relationships

Cladistics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 181-212

  Horovitz, Inés ^a   Sánchez Villagra, Marcelo R ^b  

^a NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; MARSUPIAL; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENETICS;

DASYUROMORPHIA; DIDELPHIMORPHIA; DIPROTODONTIA; DROMICIOPS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; NOTORYCTES; NOTORYCTES TYPHLOPS; UKHAATHERIUM; VINCELESTES;

EID: 0346127461     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2003.tb00363.x     Document Type: Article

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