Confusing dinosaurs with mammals: Tetrapod phylogenetics and anatomical terminology in the world of homology

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 281, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1240-1246

  Harris, Jerald D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomical nomenclature; Archosauria; Aves; Homology; Mammalia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FOWL; MAMMAL; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

ANATOMY; ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; INVERTEBRATES; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY;

ARCHOSAURIA; AVES; DINOSAURIA; MAMMALIA; SAURIA; SYNAPSIDA; TETRAPODA;

EID: 10044270849     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20078     Document Type: Article

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