Middle-Eocene artiodactyls from Shanghuang (Jiangsu Province, Coastal China) and the diversity of basal dichobunoids in Asia

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1121-1135

  Metais, Grégoire ^a,b   Qi, Tao ^c   Guo, Jianwei ^c   Beard, K Christopher ^a  

^a SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cetartiodactyla; China; Middle Eocene; Shanghuang

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; CLADISTICS; EOCENE; EXTINCTION; HOLARCTIC REGION; NEW SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNGULATE;

ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; ASIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; EOCENE; GEOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ARTIODACTYLA; CHINA; FOSSILS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MOLAR; PALEONTOLOGY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JIANGSU; SHANGHUANG;

ARTIODACTYLA; CETARTIODACTYLA; MAMMALIA; SUOIDEA;

EID: 54349094942     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0428-2     Document Type: Article

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