Snake fangs from the Lower Miocene of Germany: Evolutionary stability of perfect weapons

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 84-87

  Kuch, Ulrich ^a   Müller, Johannes ^b   Mödden, Clemens ^c   Mebs, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM;

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FOSSIL RECORD; MIOCENE; SNAKE;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREY; SNAKE; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PALEONTOLOGY; SALIVARY GLANDS; SNAKE VENOMS; SNAKES;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

ELAPIDAE; SERPENTES; VIPERIDAE; VIPERINAE;

EID: 32944482146     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-005-0065-y     Document Type: Article

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