High-level phylogeny of early Tertiary rodents: Dental evidence

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 105-134

  Marivaux, Laurent ^a   Vianey Liaud, Monique ^a   Jaeger, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Evolutionary potential; Microstructure; Morphology; Palaeogene; Phylogeny; Rodentia; Stratigraphy; Structured homoplasy; Systematics; Teeth

Indexed keywords

BALUCHIMYINAE; CAVIOMORPHA; CHAPATTIMYIDAE; CTENODACTYLIDAE; RODENTIA; SCIURAVIDAE; TSAGANOMYIDAE;

EID: 4544232196     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00131.x     Document Type: Article

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