The Late Permian herbivore Suminia and the early evolution of arboreality in terrestrial vertebrate ecosystems

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1673, 2009, Pages 3611-3618

  Fröbisch, Jörg ^a   Reisz, Robert R ^b  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anomodontia; Arboreality; Evolution; Synapsida; Terrestrial ecosystem

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARBOREAL SPECIES; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; HABITAT SELECTION; HERBIVORE; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOMETRY; PALEOBIOLOGY; PERMIAN; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SKELETON; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TETRAPOD;

ARBOREAL SPECIES; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MORPHOMETRICS; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PERMIAN; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

ANOMODONTIA; SYNAPSIDA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70350223719     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0911     Document Type: Article

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