The oldest modern therian mammal from Europe and its bearing on stem marsupial paleobiogeography

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

Volumn 106, Issue 47, 2009, Pages 19910-19915

  Vullo, Romain ^a,b   Gheerbrant, Emmanuel ^c   De Muizon, Christian ^c   Néraudeau, Didier ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Mammals; Marsupialiformes nov

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CENOMANIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRETACEOUS; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FRANCE; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXON; TOOTH;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; MAMMALS; MARSUPIALIA; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TOOTH;

DELTATHEROIDA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; THERIA;

EID: 73949098516     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902940106     Document Type: Article

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