Phylogeny, life history and the timing of molar crown formation in two archaic ungulates, Meniscotherium and Phenacodus (Mammalia, 'Condylarthra')

Frontiers of Oral Biology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2009, Pages 3-8

  Dirks, Wendy ^a   Anemone, Robert L ^b   Holroyd, Patricia A ^c   Reid, Donald J ^a   Walton, Pamela ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MOLAR TOOTH; PERISSODACTYLA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOOTH CROWN; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; ARTIODACTYLA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MOLAR; ODONTOGENESIS; PALEODONTOLOGY; PERISSODACTYLA; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOOTH CROWN;

EID: 77649220420     PISSN: 14202433     EISSN: 16623770     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000242381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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