Evolution of marine mammals: Back to the sea after 300 million years

Anatomical Record

Volumn 290, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 514-522

  Uhen, Mark D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic adaptation; Carnirora; Cetacea; Desmostylia; Feeding ecology; Pinnipedia; Sirenia

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

BREATHING; CARNIVORA; ENAMEL; EVOLUTION; FEEDING; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GEOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEA; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOOD HABITS; MAMMALS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY;

CETACEA; DESMOSTYLIA; MAMMALIA; PINNIPEDIA; SIRENIA;

EID: 34250613164     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20545     Document Type: Review

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