Were early Tertiary monotremes really all aquatic? Inferring paleobiology and phylogeny from a depauperate fossil record

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

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Camens, Aaron B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC SPECIES; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGY; FOSSIL; LETTER; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERTIARY (PERIOD);

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECHIDNA; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; PLATYPUS;

MONOTREMATA;

EID: 76549088280     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912404107     Document Type: Letter

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