Afrotherian mammals: A review of current data

Mammalia

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 2-14

  Tabuce, Rodolphe ^a   Asher, Robert J ^b   Lehmann, Thomas ^c  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fossil record; Molecules; Morphology; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; CRETACEOUS; DATA SET; ENDEMISM; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY; TERTIARY;

AFROTHERIA; CHRYSOCHLORIDAE; EUTHERIA; HYRACOIDEA; INSECTIVORA; MAMMALIA; MYA; ORYCTEROPODIDAE; SIRENIA; SORICIDAE; TENRECIDAE;

EID: 40949096949     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: 18641547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/MAMM.2008.004     Document Type: Review

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