Australia's oldest marsupial fossils and their biogeographical implications

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Beck, Robin M D ^a   Godthelp, Henk ^a   Weisbecker, Vera ^a   Archer, Michael ^a   Hand, Suzanne J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BONE AGE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOCENE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL ANIMAL; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PETROUS BONE; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; SKULL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TARSAL BONE; TOOTH; ANIMAL; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY;

DJARTHIA; DJARTHIA MURGONENSIS; METATHERIA;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; MARSUPIALIA;

EID: 46649116745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001858     Document Type: Article

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