Two new carnivores from an unusual late Tertiary forest biota in eastern North America

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7008, 2004, Pages 556-559

  Wallace, Steven C ^a   Wang, Xiaoming ^b  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; FORESTRY; SEDIMENTS;

PYLOGENETIC AFFINITIES;

BIODIVERSITY;

CENOZOIC; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; TERTIARY; VERTEBRATE;

ARTICLE; CARNIVORE; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CARNIVORA; CLASSIFICATION; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTS; FOSSILS; SEDIMENTS; WEATHER;

NORTH AMERICA;

AILURUS FULGENS; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; MELES MELES; PANDA; TAPIRIDAE; TAXIDEA TAXUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CARNIVORA; FOSSILS; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; POLLEN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TENNESSEE; TREES;

EID: 4944265673     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02819     Document Type: Article

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