Early Tertiary mammals from North Africa reinforce the molecular Afrotheria clade

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1614, 2007, Pages 1159-1166

  Tabuce, Rodolphe ^a   Marivaux, Laurent ^a   Adaci, Mohammed ^b   Bensalah, Mustapha ^b   Hartenberger, Jean Louis ^a   Mahboubi, Mohammed ^c   Mebrouk, Fateh ^c,d   Tafforeau, Paul ^e,f   Jaeger, Jean Jacques ^e  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TLEMCEN   (Algeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ORAN   (Algeria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JIJEL   (Algeria)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^f EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Afrotheria; Elephant shrew; Eocene; Hyrax; Molecules versus fossils

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; ENDEMISM; EOCENE; FOSSIL RECORD; ISOLATED POPULATION; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS;

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; DUGONG; EOCENE; FOSSIL; HYRAX; MAMMAL; MOLE (INSECTIVORA); MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AFRICA; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SHREW;

AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA;

AFROTHERIA; CHRYSOCHLORIDAE; ELEPHANTIDAE; EUTHERIA; HYRACOIDEA; MACROSCELIDIDAE; MAMMALIA; ORYCTEROPODIDAE; PROCAVIIDAE; SORICIDAE; TENRECIDAE; TUBULIDENTATA;

EID: 34447341419     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0229     Document Type: Article

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