An Early Cretaceous Tribosphenic Mammal and Metatherian Evolution

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5652, 2003, Pages 1934-1940

  Luo, Zhe Xi ^a,b   Ji, Qiang ^b,c   Wible, John R ^a   Yuan, Chong Xi ^d  

^a SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS;

FOSSILS;

ECOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS; EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MORPHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ASIA; BONE STRUCTURE; CHINA; CLIMBING; CRETACEOUS; EVOLUTION; FOOT; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE AND BONES; CHINA; DENTITION; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; LOCOMOTION; MAMMALS; MARSUPIALIA; PALEODONTOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TIME;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; THERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0348017151     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1090718     Document Type: Article

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