Functional-adaptive features and palaeobiologic implications of the postcranial skeleton of the late miocene sabretooth borhyaenoid thylacosmilus atrox (Metatheria)

Alcheringa

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 229-266

  Argot, Christine ^a,b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b Inst F Spezielle Zool und E   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation of fossil species; Functional analysis; Metatheria; Miocene; Palaeobiology; Sabretooth; South America

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; MAMMAL; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBIOLOGY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SIGMOIDEA; SMILODON; SPARASSODONTA;

EID: 2442643860     PISSN: 03115518     EISSN: 17520754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03115510408619283     Document Type: Article

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