The postcranial skeleton of early Oligocene Leptictis Mammalia: Leptictida), with a preliminary comparison to Leptictidium from the middle Eocene of Messel

Palaeontographica, Abteilung A: Palaozoologie - Stratigraphie

Volumn 278, Issue 1-6, 2006, Pages 37-56

  Rose, Kenneth D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Early oligocene; Leptictidium; Leptictis; Messel; White river formation

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIUM; EOCENE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCENE; PALEONTOLOGY; SKELETON;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 37849188317     PISSN: 03750442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1127/pala/278/2006/37     Document Type: Article

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