Description of a digital cranial endocast of bathygenys reevesi (Merycoidodontidae; Oreodontoidea) and implications for apomorphy-based diagnosis of isolated, natural endocasts

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1199-1211

  MacRini, Thomas E ^a,b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; EOCENE; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

MERYCOIDODONTIDAE;

EID: 75449102901     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/039.029.0413     Document Type: Article

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