The endocranial cavity of a nonmammalian eucynodont, chiniquodon theotenicus, and its implications for the origin of the mammalian brain

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1188-1198

  Kemp, T S ^a  

^a ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BRAIN; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; RECONSTRUCTION; REPTILE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 75449099524     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/039.029.0430     Document Type: Article

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