Postcranial element shape and function: Assessing locomotor mode in extant and extinct mustelid carnivorans

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 895-914

  Schutz, Heidi ^a   Guralnick, Robert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Canonical variates analysis; Carnivora; Geometric morphometrics; Locomotion; Mammalia, Mephitidae functional morphology; Multivariate statistics; Mustelidae

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORA; MAMMALIA; MEPHITIDAE; MUSTELA; MUSTELIDAE; MUSTELINAE;

EID: 34547671128     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00303.x     Document Type: Article

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