Thoracolumbar vertebral number: The first skeletal synapomorphy for afrotherian mammals

Systematics and Biodiversity

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-7

  Sánchez Villagra, Marcelo R ^a,c   Narita, Yuichi ^b   Kuratani, Shigeru ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c PALÄONTOLOGISCHES INSTITUT UND MUSEUM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Axial skeleton; Constraint; Marsupialia; Placentalia; Systematics

Indexed keywords

AFROTHERIA; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 33847152516     PISSN: 14772000     EISSN: 14780933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1477200006002258     Document Type: Review

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