Aspects of the functional morphology in the cranial and cervical skeleton of the sabre-toothed cat Paramachairodus ogygia (Kaup, 1832) (Felidae, Machairodontinae) from the Late Miocene of Spain: Implications for the origins of the machairodont killing bite

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 363-377

  Salesa, Manuel J ^a   Antón, Mauricio ^b   Turner, Alan ^a   Morales, Jorge ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Batallones; Carnivora; Felinae; Functional anatomy; Mammalia; Miocene; Pantherine; Turolian; Vallesian

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA; FELIDAE; FELINAE; MAMMALIA; VALLESIA;

EID: 21744447594     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00174.x     Document Type: Article

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