New data on the skull and dentition in the mongolian late cretaceous eutherian mammal Zalambdalestes

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Volumn , Issue 281, 2004, Pages 1-144

  Wible, John R ^a   Novacek, Michael J ^b   Rougier, Guillermo W ^c  

^a SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASIORYCTES; BARUNLESTES; CONIACIAN; DIASTEMA; EUTHERIA; KULBECKIA; LAGOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; THERIA; UKHAATHERIUM; ZALAMBDALESTES; ZALAMBDALESTES LECHEI; ZALAMBDALESTIDAE;

EID: 10244232271     PISSN: 00030090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2004)281<0001:NDOTSA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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