Paleocene emergence of elephant relatives and the rapid radiation of African ungulates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 10717-10721

  Gheerbrant, Emmanuel ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Africa Morocco; Afrotheria; Paenungulata; Placentalia; Proboscidea

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ELEPHANT; ERITHERIUM AZZOUZORUM; MOROCCO; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALEOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY; UNGULATE;

ANIMALS; DENTITION; ELEPHANTS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MAMMALS; MOROCCO; PALEONTOLOGY; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

AFROTHERIA; ELEPHANTIDAE; EUTHERIA; MACROSCELIDEA; MAMMALIA; PAENUNGULATA; PHOSPHATHERIUM; PROBOSCIDEA (MAMMAL); UNGULATA;

EID: 67649781974     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900251106     Document Type: Article

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