How to build a mammalian super-predator

Zoology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 196-203

  Wroe, Stephen ^a   Lowry, Michael B ^b   Anton, Mauricio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carnivores; Marsupials; Placentals; Smilodon; Thylacoleo

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FELIDAE; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SKULL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FELIDAE; FOSSILS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEODONTOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOOTH;

EUTHERIA; FELIDAE; HOMOTHERIUM; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SMILODON; THYLACOLEO; THYLACOLEO CARNIFEX;

EID: 44649186275     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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