Virtual cranial endocast of the oldest giant panda (Ailuropoda microta) reveals great similarity to that of its extant relative

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1079-1083

  Dong, Wei ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Evolution; Giant panda; Paleoneurology; Plio Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

BEAR; CRANIUM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; NEUROLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; TOMOGRAPHY;

AILUROPODA; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; FAMILIA; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POLAR BEAR; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANIMALS; BODY SURFACE AREA; BRAIN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PALEONTOLOGY; SKULL; URSIDAE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

AILUROPODA; AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA; URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 54049130786     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0419-3     Document Type: Article

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