"Protocone" in a pretribosphenic mammal and upper dentition of tinodontid "symmetrodontans"

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 548-552

  Averianov, Alexander ^a   Lopatin, Alexey ^b  

^a ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENTITION; HOMOLOGY; MAMMAL; PALEONTOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 47249108105     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[548:PIAPMA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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